InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 12, 2022

This article describes how staff+ engineers transition to supporters, enablers and force multipliers of others and what technical leadership looks like away from the management track. It explains the benefits for organisations to have leadership roles that are focussed on technical enablement and support.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It addresses complex problems across the space enterprise focused on agility, innovation and objective technical leadership. Yortsos, Dean, USC Viterbi School of Engineering; Zohrab Kaprielian Chair in Engineering, University of Southern California. Department of Energy and the White House Office of Management and Budget.

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TechEmpower CTO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. It’s written for a business leader, not an engineer. Let’s assume that you’ve already expressed your frustrations with technical leadership.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

AI-powered email processing engine – Central to the solution, this engine uses AI to analyze and process emails. The AI engine accesses this resource to pull relevant information needed to effectively address customer inquiries.

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Abhishek Tiwari

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The evolution of your technology architecture should depend on the size, culture, and skill set of your engineering organization. There are no hard-and-fast rules to figure out interdependency between technology architecture and engineering organization but below is what I think can really work well for product startup.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The author of six books, including his latest, Digital Transformation for Dummies , Jensen’s career journey spans 20 years of transformational leadership in CTO, CIO, and CDO roles at organizations like Danske Bank, IBM, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. It is the CTO, which is part of engineering.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

Exam fee: $575 for ISACA members and $760 for non-members Expiration: Three years Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Security is a main concern for the enterprise and once you start heading into management and leadership positions, it’ll become one of your top priorities.

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CircleCI

APRIL 29, 2020

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. What do engineers need to thrive at work?

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Gitprime

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. That means on a day-to-day level, a career-path level, and a living-breathing-creature level for every one of your engineers and managers. Two (equal) leadership paths.

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d2iq

JANUARY 5, 2023

today’s complex development environment, DevOps is giving way to platform engineering. In essence, DKP provides the Internal Development Platform (IDP) that is the key to successful platform engineering. This work has included triage, root cause analysis, and fixes for upstream open-source projects.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MAY 9, 2024

Verisk has embraced this technology and has developed their own Instant Insight Engine, or AI companion, that provides an enhanced self-service capability to their FAST platform. Coming from a software development and sales engineering background, the possibilities that the cloud can bring to the world excite him. He holds an M.S.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Setting expectations for leadership growth. Katie’s favorite resources on leadership & management. Buffer.com’s Engineering Career Framework. Marcus: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Execution: With ownership and budget established, the project owner along with senior technical leadership should evaluate and select a vendor to outsource the development. The owner needs to be involved daily – learning, guiding and making all the multitude of day-to-day decisions that will be required.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 3, 2015

Al Di Leonardo and Abe Usher are both mission-focused executives with a background in both technology and military leadership. Abe is an Ex-Google engineer who brings experience as a former Army infantry officer, a computer scientist and a successful business consultant, and CTO.

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Agile Engine

MAY 12, 2025

The evolution of the engineering manager: leading teams in a changing industry The software development industry is undergoing a significant transformation, marked by shifts in organizational structures, evolving expectations for leadership, and the emergence of powerful artificial intelligence tools. Their reasons?

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

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. Regularly spending time with domain experts is important.

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CircleCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The factors to be considered in this blog have to do with technology change costs and crucial leadership decisions. Here are the top three factors for leadership to consider when choosing your technology stack: Cost of changing technologies. Product-market fit. Cost of different tech stacks vary.

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Xebia

JUNE 3, 2021

An Enterprise Architect adds a different kind of value than a Tech Lead or Lead Engineer, who does architecture as well. Another one to consider is technical leadership, experience in the technical domain which can be described as “know your stuff”. Also, do not underestimate communication skills.

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Honeycomb

MAY 6, 2021

Additionally, reducing that commit-to-deployed time interval encourages accountability since it helps ensure teams are shipping one engineer’s single set of changes at any one time, versus shipping artifacts containing multiple changes from multiple engineers. “At Curious to learn more?

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

A lot of managers, especially those from an engineering background, think that management is about doing stuff: defining rules, policies, and procedures; assigning tasks; creating external incentives; fixing problems. — Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH) September 1, 2022. Building a system takes time. ” Will this always work?

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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. The discussion was moderated by Marcus Blankenship , Technical Leadership Coach at marcusblankenship.com.

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

His main technical interests are software architecture, distributed systems and computer security. He was the recipient of the 2018 Linda Northrup Award for Software Architecture, from the Software Engineering Institute at CMU. Diplomacy, leadership, communication and listening. What is software architecture for you?

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

They provide the opportunity to receive expert guidance on managing technical teams and learn about best practices for hiring (and retaining) talented developers, engineers, and designers. Conferences have also proven to be a key part of my professional growth, helping me hone and maintain my technical skills.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc. A lot of founders will wait and hope that the technical leadership can sort it out. Common Signals I''ve written previously about Symptoms of a Weak Development Team.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

government is trying to engineer a dual-listing that includes the U.K. capital, and it still serves as home for its technical leadership and command center for the EMEA and APAC regions. Elsewhere, it seems that the U.S. also remains a more desirable option for tech companies considering going public, with SoftBank-owned U.K.

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LeanEssays

JULY 16, 2015

In the First Round Review article I'm Sorry, But Agile Won't Fix Your Products , Adam Pisoni, co-founder and former CTO of Yammer, contends that “While SCRUM did manage to rein in impulsive managers, it ended up being used more to exert tighter control over engineers’ work.” Question 2: Do you hire Developers or Engineers?

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Apiumhub

MARCH 16, 2023

Europe’s largest developer & engineering conference is fast approaching! We are talking about DeveloperWeek Europe 2023 , the virtual conference that brings together engineer professionals, technical practitioners, and leaders from across Europe to share the latest tech insights and trends.

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Marv's Smart Future

MAY 21, 2018

Long acquisition programs also insure that nobody in the acquisition system is personally responsible for failure because a Program Manager’s (PM) 3-4-year leadership tour only covers a portion of the full requirement-to-IOC (Initial Operational Capability) timeline. Strong Technical Leadership. Passive Oversight.

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Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Mission: Evangelize, educate, and empower engineering leaders. We’ll create books, workshops, training programs, tools, frameworks, programs, and processes to teach the core tenants of excellent technical leadership. This week I’ve been wordsmithing a vision and mission and wanted to share a working draft with you. The mission.

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Lacework

AUGUST 9, 2022

Legendary technologist Ulfar Erlingsson joined as Chief Architect to elevate our technical leadership team. Behind the scenes, Ulfar and the engineering team set to work rebuilding our systems in order to reach new heights of scaling and performance. This set the tone for what was an incredible few months. .

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Perficient

APRIL 28, 2023

During this call, technical leadership will learn whether the team could proceed as hoped overnight or if they encountered questions that prevented them from completing their work. If the engineers have what they need in my morning, they can close out work that day. “Good morning, good evening.”

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Greg Brockman

JANUARY 9, 2017

I didn’t know much about machine learning research, and he didn’t know much about engineering and team building, but we were each impressed with the others’ accomplishments and wanted to learn from each other. Hiring engineers was easier. Every candidate accepted, except one engineer who decided to switch away from AI entirely.

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Mobilunity

AUGUST 19, 2024

This commonly includes information infrastructure, PR and content sales funnels, Social Media promotion, off-site and on-site Search Engine Optimization, and may sometimes eventually need you to involve the whole in-house marketing team.

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Mobilunity

AUGUST 19, 2024

This commonly includes information infrastructure, PR and content sales funnels, Social Media promotion, off-site and on-site Search Engine Optimization, and may sometimes eventually need you to involve the whole in-house marketing team.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

The ‘Chocolate Sauce’ Design Heuristic was originally published in Nick Tune’s Tech Strategy Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 28, 2020

Work with senior management to design and align on appropriate metrics, and make sure that executive leadership agrees and consents to using them before starting your experiments and developing your AI products in earnest. For example, many companies use recommendation engines to boost sales. Data Wrangling and Feature Engineering.

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Marv's Smart Future

MARCH 7, 2019

The result of these law changes has been the breakup of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, into two Acquisition Under Secretaries, one for Research and Engineering, and the second for Acquisition and Sustainment.

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