CircleCI

MARCH 31, 2020

Although this post is written from my point of view of as an Engineering Manager, the practices described and templates linked are valuable for anyone on a remote team: they are the result of collaboration, ideas, and retrospective takeaways from people throughout our Engineering organization. Meetings for knowledge transfer.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 24, 2019

What duties would they perform that would warrant a separate engineering role? Prior to writing this post, I’ve discussed this concept with various members of the community ranging anywhere from developers, SREs, QA Engineers, and scrum masters. Some of the more common responses were: DevOps Engineers don’t need assistants.

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Accenture

APRIL 16, 2018

Obstacles are automatically moved up from Manager, to Engineering Manager to Director depending on an SLA of how many days stale the impediment is. As a result, the teams in this group do not attend any meetings except the Scrum ceremonies, and some design meetings. It’s not magic: it’s Agile.

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Praxent

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We work in agile using scrum, and your success is measured by the success you create for the client. ” As a manager, how well does Praxent’s remote culture work? Jared Cobb – Engineering Manager: “I think that the remote culture is pretty strong at Praxent and it’s only getting stronger.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 6, 2020

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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Tandem

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

These tools include client-facing project-based learning, bi-monthly classes structured around your needs and our skillsets, non-billable hours to explore topics of your choice, a designated mentor, an engineering manager, structured feedback loops, and an entire team ready and excited to work with you. Version control. Estimation.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

Everybody who’s first encountering the world of agility, they’re going to encounter it almost always nowadays through some form of either Scrum or SAFe. Is there an approach that you would advocate for, for somebody to start thinking about, “I wonder if scrum is working for me?” GeePaw: Yeah, sure.

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Sailpoint

MAY 21, 2019

At SailPoint our individual scrum teams own their software stacks from cradle to production. Performance engineering does not have veto power and cannot override design decisions made by the core engineering groups; this is important because the Software engineers maintain ownership of their design choices.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

1 To succeed with Agile, follow these steps: 1 The method in this book is primarily based on Extreme Programming, but it also draws inspiration from Scrum, Kanban, Lean Software Development, the DevOps movement, and Lean Startup. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

This leads to endless meetings where engineering management get involved to discuss what's to be built, how to break up dependencies in manageable chunks and delegate them to various teams. The very idea of long-lived teams came from Scrum (see LeSS and SAFe agile guides). product) don't change over a long period.

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The duties of management remain largely static as an organization scales — engineering managers can and should be responsible for technical management, execution and planning, coaching and development, team health, cultural impact, communication, and overall leadership of a scrum team.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. It was September 2023, my CEO was asking me a question, and my position as Vice President of Engineering was less than three months old. Just like real Agile and real Scrum is too extreme for most companies.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). How come I didn’t get to do Kanban or Scrum or whatever thing we’re doing? Show Notes. Understanding the conflict between makers and marketers (6:22).

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 22, 2020

So I would say that’s a trade-off that is important for all engineering managers to think about. As far as balancing trust with innovation, the way we do it, at least I and my team and many other teams in Salesforce are, you know, we, we follow agile and scrum methodology. So every time we do planning for the next release.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). How come I didn’t get to do Kanban or Scrum or whatever thing we’re doing? Show Notes. Understanding the conflict between makers and marketers (6:22).

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Marcus: See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. You as the CLM, the software engineering manager, you get a notion for what people are doing. You can look at PRs. You can look at who’s assigned what tickets. Don: And so now, we’re starting to look at patterns.

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