InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 8, 2023

This article explains why Skyscanner decided not just to deploy a tool, but to think about this as changing their engineering management culture to being one that values and utilises metrics to drive greater improvement at scale.

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Allstacks

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Over the course of time as an engineering leader, I've seen my fair share of trends come and go. But perhaps none has been as persistent – and at times, overwhelming – as the push for metrics. I remember a time when our dashboards were cluttered with every conceivable data point.

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Dzone - DevOps

JULY 9, 2021

Three phases of a controlling engineering manager. Every morning, I see the unfiltered thoughts of 1200+ engineering leaders as one of the community moderators in the Dev Interrupted Discord server.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

2 What is your pro tip for HR professionals/engineering managers who are currently dealing with the hiring freeze and anticipating a huge deluge of vacancies next year? Rado: Engineering managers should be able to do “more-with-less” in the coming year. Hold people accountable to metrics, not KPIs.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Improve recruitment metrics: Data says that recruiters spend a minimum of 13 hours per week sourcing for a single role. Over time, you will also see a marked improvement in other recruitment metrics like Time To Hire, Quality of Hire, Offer Acceptance Rate, and so on. Read More: How Engineering Managers Can Help Recruiters Hire Better.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 28, 2020

The first step in building an AI solution is identifying the problem you want to solve, which includes defining the metrics that will demonstrate whether you’ve succeeded. It sounds simplistic to state that AI product managers should develop and ship products that improve metrics the business cares about. Agreeing on metrics.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Some leaders have attempted to gather metrics around velocity, estimation and other measures, but in many ways these numbers have fallen short. At Netlify, we’ve found that choosing the right metrics and focusing on the team rather than the individual can motivate the entire team to consistently deliver great results. Throughput.

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LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In September, Brandon Leach, Sr Engineering Manager at Lookout, gave a talk at our Test in Production Meetup on Increasing Deployment Safety with Metric Based Canaries. You can configure a canary to watch any metric you want, like here we’re watching system metrics and application-based metrics.

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CircleCI

JUNE 2, 2021

When we talk about metrics in software delivery, a lot of developers think of execution metrics — things like throughput, delivery and number of deploys. But in reality, those metrics don’t motivate anyone — at least not without connecting them to a bigger picture. Developers shouldn’t be obsessing over execution metrics.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Key metrics for communication assessment When assessing communication skills for tech roles, its essential to focus on metrics relevant to real-world scenarios. Assess candidates ability to switch between formal and informal communication or adjust based on the audience.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

TTH (Time To Hire) is a metric every recruiter is familiar with. Being aware of the right metrics enables tech recruiters in streamlining and optimizing every step of the funnel to increase overall effectiveness. Also Read: How To Get Your Recruiting Metrics Right In 2022. Candidate Experience Metrics. Cost To Hire (CTH).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

CoRise defines experts as leaders at tech companies; advertised instructors include a data engineering manager at Drizly, former CTO at Wikimedia, director of machine learning at ShareChat, for example. Edtech’s search for the magic metric. Some classes, like this SQL crash course , are even taught by CoRise employees.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2024

This clarity ensures products are designed with a specific market in mind; aligning business metrics with strategic goals. She is recognized in Forbes’ Top 50 Women in Tech, has spoken at prestigious events such as TEDWomen 2020, and holds a bachelor’s degree in construction engineering management. Illustration: Dom Guzman

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Federico Cargnelutti

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Metrics Customer behaviour is the key metric for business success. Metrics you can measure to improve performance in your Agile development process: Lead time. This leads to a positive outcome. Become a mentor and invest in the life and career of your team members. Cycle time.

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Federico Cargnelutti

MAY 13, 2019

Metrics Customer behaviour is the key metric for business success. Metrics you can measure to improve performance in your Agile development process: Lead time. This leads to a positive outcome. Become a mentor and invest in the life and career of your team members. Cycle time.

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OverOps

APRIL 7, 2019

Historically, the role of passing down the wisdom that comes from developer experience has been delegated to the system architects, lead developers and engineering managers. Developers and Engineering Managers are not able to teach every topic. Competes with feature development.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the year 2004, two academicsMiachael Lombardo and Robert Eichingercoined the term learning agility and described it as one of the key metrics to measure leadership potential. Since then, this term has become the cornerstone of human resource processes worldwide.

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Platform engineers manage everything from autoscaling to network routing, and application engineers look after the product features and make sure that customers are getting the best experience possible. When we had a fixed amount of servers we dealt with, we’d add each of those servers as a dimension in our application metrics.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2022

From Myers Briggs to the DISC system, there are numerous ways and tools to distill a personality into easily identifiable metrics. Post the pandemic, people managers have been facing new challenges in managing teams and team culture in remote settings.

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CIO

APRIL 13, 2023

This might include updating CFOs and CEOs on specific cost reduction, such as reducing spend with a security vendor, finding a less expensive product to fill a security need, or improving internal metrics such as the average cost to mitigate a vulnerability, adds Tyson Kopczynski,SVP and CISO at financial services provider Oportun.

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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 27, 2021

This concept is of fundamental importance for Engineering Managers and one I realized the importance of after reading The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt. Without measuring, you are left reading tea leaves with no understanding of whether you're closer, or further away, from your ultimate goal.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

A Technical Look at CDP Data Engineering. Managed, Serverless Spark. DE empowers the data engineer by centralizing all these disparate sources of data — run times, logs, configurations, performance metrics — to provide a single pane of glass and operationalize their data pipeline at scale.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. Thursday?—?December

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Apiumhub

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Early this year, the book Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to improve the quality of your architecture was published. Not having logs, monitoring tools, and metrics in place to detect problems in an environment. This is where engineering managers should kick in and push forward. The role of tech management.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 24, 2020

At the 2009 O’Reilly Velocity conference , John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, who at the time were engineering managers at Flickr, gave a talk about the best practices that allowed Flickr’s DevOps organization to deploy 10+ times a day. In case you missed it, our first post on lead times is here.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 19, 2019

In a previous post , we noted some key attributes that distinguish a machine learning project: Unlike traditional software where the goal is to meet a functional specification, in ML the goal is to optimize a metric. There needs to be a way to validate this against a given metric and validation set before deploying a model.

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Seerene

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Often resembling an endless treadmill of balancing the interests of man and machine in the name of the abstract ideal of ‘’Results’’, the task of maximising a software team’s productivity preoccupies many engineering managers’ minds.

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DataRobot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And lastly, engineers managing IT or production environments find it simple to connect the DataRobot AI Cloud platform to other tools. You can also go beyond regular accuracy and data drift metrics. Transparency Is Key In MLOps. While collaboration is critical to success, it also introduces challenges with visibility.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You can ask your CTOs, engineering managers, or team leads for tips related to technical screening of candidates, then write up your own list of developer-proof questions. Additionally, with an ATS, it’s easy to measure recruitment campaigns by other hiring metrics, such as the number of candidates interviewed and hired.

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Honeycomb

JULY 2, 2024

Developers had to sift through logs without clear visibility into errors or performance metrics. Obtaining the necessary insights could take hours, and for more complex issues, even multiple days,” said Josh Clayton, Senior Director of Engineering at HappyCo. “Investigating our systems was frustrating.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. We share a lot of experience with metrics and monitoring technologies, although she kind of despises them and I feel a profound affection for them.

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Apiumhub

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

With 16 years of professional experience in software engineering, including roles as CTO and CEO, he has become a prominent speaker at Green Software events in Germany. Paola Annis – Engineering Manager at Microsoft With more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry, Paola E.

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CodeSignal

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Selected from more than 500 nominees, each one was scored on eight equally-weighted quantitative metrics. CodeSignal goes beyond the industry standards in recruitment with results that are trusted. To learn more about CodeSignal, technical assessments, and data-driven recruiting, visit [link].

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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

We’ll want to track these things to evaluate the efficacy of the institution, since they’ll provide a better signal about how the organization is doing than a lossy metric like the number of incidents. Differences that make a difference When it comes to making changes in an organization, Hébert-Dufresne et a.l

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LeanEssays

DECEMBER 23, 2010

A real time application was created to show live web analytics of several key metrics that the Product Manager correlated to increased revenue. Then the team developed the capabilities most likely to drive the metrics in the right direction, observed the results, and modified their development plans accordingly.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The transition to becoming a manager of managers requires an entirely new set of skills: hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineering managers are fundamentally different jobs than hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers. Managing engineering managers is not all just rainbows and unicorns, right?

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 16, 2018

OpenCensus, a Google-lead open source project, is a single distribution of libraries to provide instrumentation and collection of metrics and tracing—and in the future, event—data for your services. OpenCensus libraries can export telemetry to different backends, and a number of vendors are making major contributions to the project.

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