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Handling security issues as an engineering team
We live in a world of technology and engineering. Almost everything around us requires software. Unfortunately, the software we use or build has bugs. While most bugs can be fixed, there are these other types of bugs, called vulnerabilities, that cause headaches and haunt us at night.
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How to affect change without losing your job
Sometimes, we want to make changes to processes and habits our team has, but it’s not around the code itself. How can we do that? How do we make changes to the habits of hundreds? Moreover, how can we do this work as individual contributors?
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How to scale yourself as a first-time engineering leader
When you're a first-time leader it's hard to transition from being a problem solver to leading a team to solve problems. It's often tempting to step in and solve problems for your team.
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Bridging the gap between engineering and customer success teams
Investing in your customer success team is high leverage. The more knowledgeable your team is, the more effective it can be at investigating, diagnosing and triaging customer issues.
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Using an ‘architectural North Star’ to align your engineering team with your organization
In a fast-growing, agile organization, teams are usually encouraged to self-organize. Equipped with the guiding principles such as fast iteration and frequent feedback loop with the customers, we entrust the most valuable asset, people, to make informed decisions.
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Transitioning from technical leadership to parenthood, and back again
Navigating any new personal scenario while leading a team can be extremely challenging, but last summer I found myself nine months pregnant and leading our engineering organization through an acquisition while preparing for the birth of my son. On the day he was born, I got the news that the acquisition had been finalized.
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Extended leave: how to manage the anxieties of returning to work
As more companies offer longer parental leaves and other leaves of absence, managers and their teams are learning how to handle them successfully.
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Driving architecture alignment across a fully-distributed engineering workforce
InVision started as a small startup several years ago with tens of engineers, small teams working independently as velocity was paramount. But as InVision grew to hundreds of engineers, all fully remote, we realized that this independence was actually slowing us down - teams resolving the same problems, inconsistent metrics, etc.
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How to hire remote junior developers
You wouldn’t hire a senior developer without giving them any support or possibilities for growth, would you? Of course not!
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Crafting effective 1:1s for distributed engineering teams
Creating relationships with the individual humans on your distributed team is difficult since you rarely get to see them in person! But a team is much less likely to be effective and successful without a foundation of interpersonal relationships and trust.