Jake Doranblog.jakedoran.co.uk·Oct 2, 2023Engineering Management: Expectations vs. RealitiesEmbarking on a career in engineering management is often a journey filled with high aspirations and big dreams. As young engineers transition into leadership roles, they bring with them idealistic visions of how to lead teams, innovate, and drive cha...Discuss·10 likesEngineering Management 101: From Idealist to Realistengineering
Evangelos Pappasshipit.hashnode.dev·Sep 10, 2023Debunking McKinsey's Software Engineering Productivity Metrics: A Technical PerspectiveDebunking McKinsey's Software Engineering Productivity Metrics: A Technical Perspective TL;DR; McKinsey's software engineering productivity metrics are overly simplistic and misaligned with DevOps principles. They focus too much on individual output,...Discuss·31 readsDevops
Siddarth JainforNotes by Dr Droidnotes.drdroid.io·Jul 5, 2023The path from an engineer to a tech lead(er)Being a developer in a high pace startup environment, it is obvious that you might have spent time thinking about what would be the optimal career path for you and what you can do to get there. From a survey of about 50 engineers, we noticed that som...Discuss·43 readsCareersCareer
Tim JagodzinskiProtechcultureprinciples.com·Jul 2, 2023Engineering Culture: A micro frameworkIt's your job as an engineering manager to manage the environment for engineers so they can do outstanding work; it's not about you controlling the engineers. You have one main goal: Increase sustained productivity and happiness. We want the maximum ...Discuss·12 likes·54 readsCulture
Jeffery Moorejefferymoore.io·Jun 26, 2023Patterns For Maximizing Engineering Team PerformanceIntroduction Software continues to eat the world, and technology powers nearly every facet of a business's operation, from internal processes to the goods and services offered. As a result, enterprises spanning a variety of sectors - from retail and ...Discuss·37 readssoftware development
Oliver Grayoligray.com·May 8, 2023Avoid anti-agile planning between Product, Design & EngineeringI still remember the excitement of my scrum master training more than a decade ago in New York City. With my new classmates I practised the ball point game and in groups, we built paper prototypes at remarkable speed. After the course, I went back to...Discuss·96 readsagile development
Princiya SequeiraProprinciya.hashnode.dev·Apr 30, 2023Autonomy and self-organisationIn the context of teamwork and collaboration, how can teams achieve autonomy and self-organization in order to function more effectively? Understanding autonomy in a team setting Autonomy refers to the ability of a team to operate independently, with...Discussleadership
Mihnea Simianmihneasim.hashnode.dev·Apr 9, 2023I've led a Frontend Chapter for three years and this is the idea I'm most proud ofA chapter is very much different from a squad or a delivery team, especially when it comes to collaboration channels and time spent together. Let's see how each type of team has the privilege of a collaboration scene: SquadChapter Agile Ceremo...Discuss·40 readsmanagement
Jiovanni Rosariobecomingaleader.hashnode.dev·Mar 11, 2023How To Build Trust as a New Engineering ManagerI once worked under a manager that I didn't — or couldn't — trust, and it was a disaster. Once that distrust set in, I began to second-guess everything they said, and my confidence and performance dropped. So when I started managing a team, I put a l...Discuss·10 likes·35 readsmanagement
Vladimir Filonovblog.filonov.dev·Feb 1, 2023How You Benefit From Knowledge SharingThis blog post was originally written and published on the inDrive blog. Want to work with us? Check our vacancies! I'm addicted to learning and sharing knowledge. But it was not always like that. I always understood the profit of education, but for...Discuss·82 readsmanagement