Operating under a shared reality is a competitive advantage, but most teams share state poorly. Let’s talk about gluing brains together!
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Glue Your Happy Brains Together With Shared State
How to Refactor Meetings as They Grow With the Rule of Eight
A rule of thumb is that a meeting with more than eight people isn’t a decision-making meeting.
When you have more than eight participants, you either need to change the format of the meeting, or you need to restructure the participants — and you usually want to do some deeper work on communication and organizational structure.
Your Daughter’s Favorite Dev Fixed Tech’s Mentorship Problem w/ AMEX VP Sarvenaz Myslicki
If you looked up the term “firing on all cylinders” in the dictionary, I’m fairly confident there would be a picture of Sarvenaz Myslicki next to it.
A next-gen leader who earned the role of VP of Technology at American Express by the age of 30, Savernaz is a published author, an in-demand thought-leader on mentorship and has one of the largest followings on programmer TikTok.
Rethink Your Startup Hiring Strategy To Stand Out and Delight the Best Candidates
Creating a Hiring Strategy
Why should someone work at your company? Every company answers this question differently. Here are some valid strategies for hiring:
- We’ll pay the median rate in your area, but we’re investing heavily in making this the place for you to do your best work: the best work culture (early days New Relic).
- We’re working in a compelling technical area, which attracts a lot of talented people, so you can work with a great team and solve interesting problems. Plus we’re making a great people-focused work environment (Gremlin during my tenure there, also early days New Relic).
- We’re making Disneyland for engineers, with lots of perks, and top pay, in a university-like environment (early Google strategy).
- We’ll pay really well for you to work your ass off, and in return, you get a chance to work at a scale you won’t otherwise (Amazon today).
- We won’t pay you the most, but you’ll get to spend time each week working on open source software (a local software consultancy my friend ran for a while).
In practice, when you haven’t done the work to articulate why someone should work there, your hiring strategy looks like this:
How Promotions Ruin Dev Careers w/ Shopify’s Dir. of Engineering James Stanier
In so many professions, the reward for exceptional work is a promotion to management. Unfortunately, for developers whose programming gets them singled out for promotion, the skills to manage a team have nothing to do with the work that got them recognized in the first place.
James Stanier, Director of Engineering at Shopify, understands the pitfalls of being promoted from an IC to an engineering manager, and began writing as a way to think through the mistakes he himself was making.
What the Next 20 Million Devs Want — With Tiff in Tech and Stereotype Breakers’ Masha Zvereva
The world is shortly going to need another 20 million developers, and with over 1,000 engineering leaders joining us for INTERACT on April 7th, there’s no better time to talk to two people who have captured the minds of millions of developers - and will be featured at INTERACT - Tiffany Janzen and Masha Zvereva.
In addition to their own tech careers, both women have become prominent voices in the dev community, Tiffany is most well-known for her Tiff in Tech YouTube channel and Masha for her company Stereotype Breakers.
Is Your Dev Team TOO Big to Succeed? w/ SAIC’s Bob Ritchie
Modern problems require modern solutions, right?
The problem is, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to understand what solutions are required for a given problem and even harder to task a team with finding them.
What Devs Need To Teach CEOs About AI w/ Lexion’s Emad Elwany
For decades Artificial Intelligence has been a focus of best-selling science fiction authors and an antagonist for blockbuster Hollywood movies. But AI is no longer relegated to the realm of science fiction, it inhabits the world around us. From the biggest enterprise companies to plucky startups, businesses everywhere are building and deploying AI at incredible speed.
In fact, open source allows anyone with a laptop to build impressively good AI models in a day.
What CTOs Say vs. What Their Developers Hear
Anyone who’s been in a rapidly scaling company with an ever-expanding engineering team knows that communication is never as simple as it seems.
That’s why we were so excited when Shankar Ramaswamy decided to sit down with Dev Interrupted.
What Hackers Know About Your Software Supply Chain (That You Don’t)
You’ve heard of the supply chain, but what about the software supply chain?
Unlike the standard supply chain that you often hear about in the news, this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted dives into the supply chain responsible for holding together the systems that companies, orgs and governments depend upon.
3 Important Lessons When Supervising DevOps
The cultural philosophy of DevOps requires a paradigm shift in thinking, not just technological processes. The main goal of all the practices that we will look at is to break down the barriers between the development department, managers, and engineers since they usually exist in isolation. This approach previously helped to clearly distribute tasks between groups of performers but excluded interaction as a key factor in high productivity and flexibility.
Well-established communication between all links in the chain of those responsible for the product increases the quality and efficiency of work. Additionally, creative ideas often go beyond the traditional framework, which opens up opportunities for the integration of innovative solutions.
Compare The Best Management Courses
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Community AMA: Bryan Finster and Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery isn’t about how fast you can deliver, it’s about the outcome your delivery achieves. Bryan Finster, author of the 5-minute DevOps series and founder of the DevOps Dojo, joined our Dev Interrupted Discord community to answer your questions about outcome-based development, continuous delivery, and why failing small is better than failing fast.
Bryan is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Defense Unicorns but has also worked for Walmart as a systems analyst and eventually became a staff software engineer for Walmart Labs. He had previously appeared on the Dev Interrupted Podcast to further talk about these subjects as well as the most common pitfalls dev teams find when trying to optimize their delivery process. Listen to the episode here:
Rethinking Teamwork with Range
"Where is the future of work" is almost as important a question as, "What is the future of work?"
That's why the minds behind Range are on a mission to keep teams connected, focused and productive no matter where they're working.
Working Together as Embedded Engineering Teams
What Is the Embedded Model?
Companies need specialists, and specialists often do their work with people outside their department. For example, all these specialties work with software engineers:
- Designers
- Product managers
- Site reliability engineers (SREs)
- Quality engineers (QA)
- Application security engineers
- Architects
Specialists often apply the most leverage when they work next to engineers. For example, an SRE might help a team improve its monitoring. They might help even more if they help the team to understand how to do monitoring themselves. A designer might work side by side with an engineering team. They design future features and collaborate on current features.
Building a Unicorn Engineering Org at GRIN
How do you build an engineering organization that can drive your company to a billion-dollar valuation and unicorn status?
And how do you do it in an emerging and highly-competitive product category like influencer/creator management? Brent Bartlett, VP of Engineering at GRIN, joins the podcast this week to share his blueprint for success and his path to leadership.
Management and the Future of AI with Azure’s CTO
Has your entire career ever hinged on a single moment? For Darren Dillon, free beer in college set him on the path to a computer science degree and eventually a wildly successful career at Microsoft.
Today, as the CTO of Azure and AI at Microsoft Industry Solutions, Darren leads an impressive team of over 130 engineers and is at the forefront of cloud computing and AI technology.
My First Thoughts as an Engineering Manager
Recently, I've joined Nextail Labs as an Engineering Manager. This is my first experience working in a Software Startup and also as an Engineering Manager. I've been leading Engineers Teams most of my professional career with other roles including the following:
- Tech Lead in a small software consultant company.
- Solution Architect and Team Lead of consultant team of an important software vendor.
- Team Lead and Product Owner in an important fashion retailer company.
None of these roles were focused on the people, there were always other main goals. Today, I know how different they are and how different the challenge is.