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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. At Honeycomb and elsewhere, good engineering managers are often some of the most essential glue holding software teams together and helping employees feel a sense of belonging and purpose at work.

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Opportunities for DevSecOps in 2021

Dzone - DevOps

I wrote The Future of DevSecOps in June 2019 after gathering insights from IT professionals who foresaw: greater adoption, security being ingrained in development, and, AI/ML-driven automation. When developing an application, user experience needs to be a top priority as end users are among the most important stakeholders.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. Scaling startups are often concerned with the first inflection point of their team size.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

Leaders of distributed engineering teams shouldn’t have to work up solutions to these problems from scratch. So we held a panel discussion with three of today’s top engineering leaders to discuss approaches and lessons learned in building, growing, and maintaining remote and distributed teams.

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

For over a decade, two similar concepts — DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) — have been coexisting in the world of software development. In essence, two methodologies do the same thing: They try to bridge the gap between development and operations teams. At first glimpse, they look like competing approaches.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

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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