Engineering

In this edition of Business of Coding, Quick Left CPO Joe Stump talks to Head of Engineering at Pinterest, Michael Lopp. Throughout this podcast, Joe and Michael talk about his new position as a manager at a pre-existing company. What are the first things you look to do when entering in as the outsider? Michael explains the importance of the company culture, and the two also discuss the possible red flags and green flags that a person should look for in the organization of a company. Listen to the full podcast here.

Business of Coding: Michael Lopp Head of Engineering at Pinterest

Hear all about what SoundCloud is from the people who know it best: the SoundCloud team.

Rodolfo, Engineering, Engineering Culture

Duana, Engineering, Culture

Joe, Engineering, Culture

O'Reilly's Mac Slocum talks with Neal Ford, a software architect and meme wrangler at ThoughtWorks, about software architecture, its relationship with DevOps, and the growing influence of microservices.

How The DevOps Revolution Informs Software Architecture

SWE leaders will be launching the first national gender study of its kind this spring. In episode two of the Diverse podcast series, “Gender Equity & Engineering: Leadership Strategies for Inclusive Cultures”, host Jo Miller interviews founder and principal of Primer Michaels, Beth Michaels, who is leading the SWE National Gender Equity Culture Study. Learn about the research and how corporate culture impacts the retention and advancement of women employees. 

Diverse Episode 2: Gender Equity & Engineering: Leadership Strategies for Inclusive Cultures

I sat down with Sam Guckenheimer of Microsoft to talk about how he led the transformation of Microsoft Visual Studio to Visual Studio Online, a SaaS based offering. Along the way Sam and his team developed the 7 habits of successful DevOps, based on their experiences.

The 7 Habits of Successful DevOps

Creating the right culture for your engineering organization is crucial to success and requires proper attention and care. To help understand the process, we catch up with Doc Norton and Heather Corallo. Doc is former Director of Engineering at Groupon and currently founder/CEO of CTO2. Heather is the current Director of Engineering at Groupon and has 10+ years in the Tech Talent space. 

Creating a Successful Engineering Culture

Kevin is an engineer at Occipital, a Techstars alumni, organizer for Boulder Startup Week, and co-founder of Ignighter. Hear Kevin’s entrepreneurial story and hear about some of the recruiting, engineering, and culture challenges in the Boulder Startup scene.


0.2 – Hiring & Engineering Values w. Kevin Owocki

Shipping is your company's heartbeat, and at Intercom we're shipping code to production more than 100 times a day. Intercom VP of Engineering, Darragh Curran, talks with Co-Founder Des Traynor about how he's scaled the engineering team and culture behind it.

Darragh Curran, VP of Engineering at Intercom

Tina Donbeck’s journey to DevOps began in a unique way, not through technology but through a degree in psychology. Her perception of DevOps is through the lens of change management. Her focus is not on the technical as much as cultural change and the customer perspective. In this Innovator’s Journey profile, Tina talks about her transition from psychology to DevOps, roadblocks to DevOps adoption and the influences shaping her work.

About Tina Donbeck
Tina has been an IT strategist and innovator for over 14 years in both the private and public sector. Her calling has been turning around failed projects or taking on difficult change initiatives and making them a success. Her recent endeavors have been with automating the development/release pipeline at her agency while promoting the cultural goodness of DevOps and Continuous Delivery methodologies. She credits her ability to rifle through chaos and perform extreme multi-tasking with her time spent as an active duty Marine and her current role as a Mom to two rambunctious boys.
 
Tina stood up and led the Enterprise Transformation Branch for the Navy CIO as well has served in various roles as Analyst/Program/Project Manager within DoD and now as a Director of IT at her agency.  She is a Certified CIO,PMP, ScrumMaster, and Product Owner who currently is utilizing a ScrumBan approach in her project efforts.

An Innovator's Journey to DevOps

Tina Donbeck - An Innovator's Journey

This is the first in a new series of podcasts from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences - the Engineering Culture Podcast. 

In this podcast, Wes Reisz, chair of the QCon conferences in San Francisco, London and New York talks to Phil Haack, an Engineering Director at GitHub focused on software pushed mostly to the desktop.   He’s shipping software like GitHub Desktop, GitHub Extensions for Visual Studio and the Atom text editor.  Haack joined GitHub in 2011 and is a prominent member of the .Net community.  At Microsoft Phil was core to shipping NewGit and ASP.NET, MVC.NET.

Why listen to this podcast:

 - There is often too much focus on the nitty-gritty details of software development practices but as you scale out to larger projects and teams the challenges are not technological- they are sociological.
 - Research shows that teams which are more diverse are more effective.
 - Engineers shifting to management should consider it a discipline like any other technical field; it’s not something that you should “just wing”.
 - Building an effective team requires trust and that allows candid discussions and healthy debates without disrupting the relationships.  One-on-ones can be an effective way to do that.
 - To be an effective coach for engineers, a manager needs to be seen as a strong technical leader.  Someone without technical credibility is generally not received well.

Notes and links can be found on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2L7Irg3

5m 10s The big problems we have are sociological, and frequently companies and engineers don’t pay enough attention to these problems because they try to focus on the technical practices instead; but the root cause is how people interact with each other and how they are working together.

5m 40s The talk covers some personal lessons learned and the research that backs those personal lessons. There is validated research that shows certain things make for more effective teams.

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Engineering Culture by InfoQ

Github’s Phil Haack on Moving from Engineering to Management

Director of Engineering Jocelyn Goldfein takes us on a trip inside the innovative culture of Facebook. In this illuminating conversation with STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig, Goldfein explains why code wins arguments, employees must have the right to take risks, and how Facebook strives to remain a hungry, yet humble, company.

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