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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

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. Software engineering productivity cant be measured. This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. How are you measuring productivity?

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. I highly recommend his writing on the topic.

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A guide to personal retrospectives in engineering

CircleCI

This post was written by Stig Brautaset, CircleCI Senior Software Engineer, in collaboration with Cian Synnott, CircleCI Senior Staff Software Engineer. Retrospectives are a well-established resource in the software and systems engineering toolbox. Let’s Talk Engineering is always such a pleasure to attend.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

Test automation is not a project or a one-off—it is part of the development lifecycle and should be seen as its own system that needs to evolve over time as the requirements and system under test change and mature. Delivery pipelines and source code management systems help—for example, you can gate pull requests on a failing test.

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GitHub Universe 2024, what a blast!

Xebia

It is great to be among so many talented people who know all the nuts and bolts of GitHub and work closely with GitHub engineers on new and existing features. These edits are applied directly in the editor, and you can quickly review them in the full context of the surrounding code. It also provi de s a way to auto-fix comments.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Not the plan I didn’t join Honeycomb with the goal of becoming an engineering executive.

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How We Define SRE Work

Honeycomb

At the time of writing this post, I have officially been at Honeycomb for one year as a site reliability engineer (SRE). The charter (aka what site reliability engineers should care about). Take a long-term, holistic view of the system. How site reliability engineers shape their work. I’ll share it here. .