Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” The software engineering community was rethinking some long-held ideas about engineering career paths. This is good.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2023

Welcome to the third and last part of our Talks With Software Development Experts series. As we have mentioned before, this initiative is a section where we interview software engineers and industry experts to learn more about their professions, efforts, hobbies, and perspectives on a variety of tech-related issues.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Assess the personality strengths and weaknesses of the candidate to understand whether they can execute responsibilities in the long run or not. Technical skills By analyzing technical skills, you’ll be able to understand if the engineering candidate fits the role or not. This makes evaluating the engineer a painful process.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

As we’ve put it into practice, it’s definitely been a lot of work for managers to fill out the spreadsheets. For managers that know their employees well, the work’s been tolerable. For managers that are new to their team, it’s been tough. The management track is the biggest addition, with 78 new skills.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Distributed teams. Bjorn is an experienced software leader. Throughout his career, Bjorn has worked with many different types of teams, from fully co-located to fully distributed. New Relic’s developers all worked together, on several floors of an office building in downtown Portland. The N+1 Management Problem.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For recruiters, identifying candidates who excel in communication is criticalnot just for client-facing roles, but for fostering collaboration, solving problems, and driving innovation within teams. Key benefits of communication assessments: Improved hiring accuracy: Ensures candidates fit team dynamics.

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Seerene

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Having begun as an Engineer with my company, Seerene, I transitioned from this role to a position as Engineering Manager some two months ago. Just as any individual would when they’re about to start in a new position, I started familiarising myself with blog posts and other literature written by seasoned managers.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 10, 2020

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. In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Software Engineer, Jacque Garcia. I’m a software engineer on the X Team.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Distributed teams. Bjorn is an experienced software leader. Throughout his career, Bjorn has worked with many different types of teams, from fully co-located to fully distributed. New Relic’s developers all worked together, on several floors of an office building in downtown Portland. The N+1 Management Problem.

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In the past five years, we’ve seen a drastic increase in adoption by engineering teams of all sizes. Kubernetes solves the problem of deploying software at scale, in a standardized way. But what it doesn’t solve is knowing if that software’s doing what it’s supposed to be doing. Don’t get me wrong here.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

When you need to scale your business, you look at the recruiting teams to bring in the talent needed for success. In many ways, data-driven recruitment empowers recruiters to make educated opinions and change their hiring strategy (if needed) through the long-winding process of developer recruitment. Cost To Hire (CTH).

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Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. That’s our sprint-by-sprint purpose in a nutshell.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 24, 2020

On the machine learning side, we are entering what Andrei Karpathy, director of AI at Tesla, dubs the Software 2.0 John Myles White , data scientist and engineering manager at Facebook, wrote: “The biggest risk I see with data science projects is that analyzing data per se is generally a bad thing.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We with his wife, Melissa Nightingale.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 26, 2022

on-premise — hardware and software are installed locally; cloud-based — resources are deployed either in public or private cloud environments; and. Developed in 2012 and officially launched in 2014, Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform provided as a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution with a completely new SQL query engine.

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LeanEssays

AUGUST 19, 2011

Then I managed a factory IT department for a few years, and managed vendors delivering software for yet more years. In all of those years (with one exception), software was delivered on time and customers were happy. Software Without Stories So if I didn’t use detailed requirements – how did I know what to code?

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Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

When startups are first setting out, the initial team is small and usually solving relatively discrete (albeit central) problems. But at scale, the quantity and size of the problems grow larger than a single manageable team can handle. asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork.

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Accenture

APRIL 16, 2018

He had come on a ten-day trip to India to select an Indian offshore company to be his Agile provider for software development services. He had already met with many top software providers to learn about their ability to deliver high-quality software and demonstrate Agile software development capabilities.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, GeePaw Hill, discuss how the doubling rate in the software industry has resulted in a complete lack of trade discipline. The doubling rate of makers has resulted in a total lack of culture in the software industry (2:12). Why good workers leave the organization (18:05).

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

There is an inherent difference between leaders and managers that is often overlooked. While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Katie’s journey into management. Transitioning others into management and bumps along the way. I am VP of Engineering over there.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. You’ve decided that Agile will make your teams more successful. Second Edition cover.

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Tandem

JUNE 7, 2022

Kitto , Software Engineer. Lin , Design Manager. “The The tech you choose is usually not as important as the architecture you design, how you manage complexity, and what your team is already trained in.”. It’s not bad, just something new.”. Sara , Software Engineer. Varell , Software Engineer.

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LeanEssays

DECEMBER 23, 2010

“We’re really struggling with the Product Owner concept, and many of our Scrum teams just don’t feel very productive.” The company had several vertical markets, with a Scrum team of about ten people assigned to each market. Each market had a Product Manager, a traditional role found in most product companies. they told us.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.

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Mobilunity

JANUARY 4, 2023

Nearly 47% of respondents said they would be employing a DevOps or DevSecOps approach to software development in 2022. Software development and IT operations are combined in the process known as “DevOps.” By collaborating closely with the development team, they will accelerate the code deployment.

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CircleCI

FEBRUARY 4, 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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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

excellent hallway track that is easier to manage (as an attendee) because event is single track. I got a nice fountain of observations from the team via Slack. monitoring: the bad parts. the product development challenge. the product development challenge. Briefly: well curated community-driven event.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

The practice of one on ones is important in connecting to a team. @6:44. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy-high performing software teams. And you’d be like, ouch, it sounds like it’s bad news, but it was really good news.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Everybody has the capacity to develop compassion; it’s about how we direct our energy, time, and effort. @21:29. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy high-performing software teams. Compassionate Coding Twitter: @CompassionCode.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

Software engineers have been testing ever since they could write code. However, the ability to automate software tests commercially emerged only in the 1980s with the introduction of AutoTester. Unit testing is a type of software testing where individual units or software components are tested.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Bad management and leadership comes from somewhere above you with expectations that came into the company a long time ago. @7:43. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams. Programmingleadership.com.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

The practice of one on ones is important in connecting to a team. @6:44. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy-high performing software teams. And you’d be like, ouch, it sounds like it’s bad news, but it was really good news.

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Progress

MAY 22, 2019

Although you may see more articles on microapps popping up recently, the term and development strategy has been around for some time. In software engineering terms, this is akin to the single responsibility principle which states that, "a class should have one and only one reason to change." Modern-day Nostradamus, I tell ya.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? My favorite discussion of the topic is Robert Austins, who wrote Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. Our software would be easy to modify and maintain. So I told the truth. Not possible.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Is conflict always a bad thing? Conflict may be uncomfortable, but it is not always bad. Conflict may be uncomfortable, but it is not always bad. Tension provokes uncertainty which can then change dynamics of individuals or even teams. So, I am a Conflict Management Practitioner and Leadership Development Consultant.

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