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Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” – charity.wtf

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#culture #development #management #software #work | <blockquote>At large company B (LCB), ICs agreed that it's problematic to reward creating new features more richly than doing critical grunt work. When I talked to managers, they often agreed, too. But nevertheless, the people who get promoted are disproportionately those who ship shiny new things. I saw management attempt a number of cultural and process changes at LCB. Mostly, those took the form of pronouncements from people with fancy titles. For really important things, they might produce a...

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Magnitudes of exploration. | Irrational Exuberance

#architecture #career #management #programming #software | <blockquote>Standardizing on a given platform or technology is one of the most powerful ways to create leverage within a company: improve the tooling a bit and every engineer will get more productive. Exploration is, in the long run, an even more powerful force, with successes compounding over time. Developing an investment thesis to balance the ratios and timing of standardization and exploration is a core challenge of engineering strategy.</blockquote>

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Maslow's pyramid of code review | dein.fr

#best_practices #code #development #management #software | <blockquote>Maslow's pyramid can help us think about what great code reviews look like.</blockquote>

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How to Deal with Difficult People on Software Projects

#career #developers #management #people #software #teams | <blockquote>Software is easy. People are hard.</blockquote>

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[1904.09954] Why Software Projects need Heroes (Lessons Learned from 1100+ Projects)

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The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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