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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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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

TechCrunch

As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. The evidence is mixed on this, but in the software industry particularly, remote work exacerbated many of the challenges that employees already faced.

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Interview questions for engineering managers and senior software developers

NeverFriday

I wrote two articles that have been published that list interview questions you can ask when interviewing engineering manager and senior software engineer candidates. 10+ Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions.

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Two Key Focuses (And a Checklist) For New Engineering Managers

Dzone - DevOps

There is very little formal guidance for new engineering managers. When I first moved from an individual contributor (IC) to an engineering manager (EM), I found myself struggling to find training resources. I want to change that - and I hope this article will serve as a small start in that direction.

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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

Israeli startup Wilco describes itself as “an immersive upskilling platform for software developers,” and snuck out of stealth this week with its first public version, and a stash-box with $7 million worth of fresh seed funding. It turns out that being able to write software is only a small part of the job.

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Jellyfish aims to ‘do for engineering what Salesforce did for sales’

TechCrunch

As more companies become software companies, what is being created still needs to align with business objectives. Jellyfish believes this can be done by giving software engineering leaders the data and insights they need to do that. Engineers understand what they work on and how it affects and grows the business.

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Article: Advice for Engineering Managers: Enabling Developers To Become (More) Creative

InfoQ Culture Methods

As an engineering manager, it is your responsibility to help facilitate creative thinking skills among the development team, but that's easier said than done. This article provides advice on how can you help amplify the creative thinking skills of your software development colleagues.