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Dare Mighty Things: What NASA's Endeavors Teach Us about the Power of Calculated RISCs
Khawaja Shams explores the essence of calculated risks, discussing why these risks are worth taking, how to identify and mitigate potential downsides, and the characteristics of good risks.
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Help: I Didn’t Realize I Was a Manager Now!
Peter Gillard-Moss tries to help people understand how they can grow to become a great engineering manager.
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Monorepos: beyond the Technicalities
Tiago Bento analyzes software development workflows without ignoring the human factor and the status quo (most likely a poly-repo setting).
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The Journey of ClearBank from Start-Up to Scale-Up
Michael Gray discusses how ClearBank has balanced autonomy and process in its engineering teams who faced increased demands due to departmental expansion and a complex regulatory environment.
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Being a Bad Influence – the Dangerous Dichotomies of People Management
Hannah Foxwell shares the nightmares of people management, recounts some of the mistakes she's made and shares the lessons learnt along the way.
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Managing Staff+ Engineers: Opportunities and Challenges
Adam Schirmacher discusses the “transparent umbrella” strategy, treating staff+ engineers like senior engineers, handling mismatched IQ/EQ, and leading without authority vs. lending authority.
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Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer
Caleb Hyde discusses their career progression and regressions, as well the context they used to figure out what to work on and whom to work with, distilling a framework to utilize in one’s own work.
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Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation
Sarah Aslanifar discusses leveraging continuous learning to drive efficiency, eliminate waste, and significantly improve product outcomes, covering the crucial role of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).
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Defensible Moats: Unlocking Enterprise Value with Large Language Models
Nischal HP discusses risk mitigation, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework implementation to achieve sustainability goals, strategic procurement, spend analytics, data compliance.
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Mission, Culture, and Values: Using Them to Guide Your Company through Good and Challenging Times
Heather McKelvey discusses LinkedIn’s guidelines used to weather events, such as economic downturns, and how to turn those periods into opportunities.
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Two Years of Incidents at Six Different Companies: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals
Vanessa Huerta Granda looks at real-life examples of companies she has worked with who chose to invest in improving their incident programs and have seen it pay dividends.
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Trust Deterministic Execution to Scale and Simplify Your Systems
Frank Yu discusses how to make a mission critical business logic deterministic and fast, providing both intuitive and not-so-obvious architecture choices.
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