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As a counterpoint, an engineering leader at a public tech company with stable growth shared that their organization heavily relies on JIRA, using it as a knowledge engine.
It’s an example of directive leadership and while this approach can work well for roles where there is little creativity needed, it is usually a poor way to build high-performing software engineering teams.
Typically used methodology: as each team can choose how they work, the methodologies used per engineering team can vary, even on a project basis.
Note that even though engineers have high-level specialization, in Big Tech most experienced software engineers are expected to be able to pick a broad range of engineering work, and the interview process also reflects this generalist approach.
Is managing projects a good use of engineering time?
Similar to how TPMs are not allocated to a single engineering team, these Program Managers or Product Managers also don’t tend to have an engineering team, but they work across many teams instead.
The first thing we did was make QA part of engineering.
Much of Big Tech has recognized how first-class infrastructure and developer tooling make a big difference to the productivity for engineering teams.
This is why 30-40% of engineering often works on platform teams and is why Uber invested heavily in platform teams.
This is true for most types of engineering, and there’s good reason why the Skunk Works model of autonomy with reduced bureaucracy, is what many high-performing teams with high-caliber people end up following.
Scaling an engineering organization goes well beyond team-level processes, which is another reason most of Big Tech does not push heavyweight team processes.
Keeping up the pace as the engineering team grows.
“Kitchen sink teams” are typical within non-tech companies, where the business has no understanding of how engineering works.
Scrum helps rein in the stakeholders and educates them on software development processes, while giving the engineering team breathing room to execute.
They are also common in early-stage startups, where there is one engineering team to build everything.
This model very much fits how most engineering teams evolve as well.
It was a lot more work upfront, but resulted in the team delivering more, people growing faster, getting promoted faster, and those people becoming engineering leaders faster than their peers.
But automation in cars allowed that to separate, so driving is now a quite separate subject, so to speak, from engineering of the car or learning how to service it.
Do we really believe that engineering and biology and all of these other things that have so benefited from computers and maths have somehow conceptually gotten reduced by using computers?
This reverse engineering can also enlist help from the human record preserved in prehistory.
In fact, what we ought to do is take a page from their playbook, because the initiatives and programs that have been set in place for women in science and engineering and mathematics are fantastic.
Journalists who studied journalism, engineers who studied engineering.
Brian Acton, an engineering manager who was rejected by both Twitter and Facebook before cofounding WhatsApp, the mobile messaging platform that would sell for 19 billion dollars.
I started by simply asking myself how I could bring together in some meaningful way my skills in software engineering and artificial intelligence and the expertise of the people I'd reached out to.
What I had was a very particular set of engineering skills, skills I'd acquired over my career (Laughter) that were new to people who had been working on the air pollution problem for so many years.
Genetic engineering coupled with polymer physiotechnology coupled with xenotransplantation.
But if any of you have studied electrical engineering, we can also create a short circuit.
We've actually tried to turn it into an electrical engineering lab.
We don't usually think of our kitchen as an electrical engineering lab or little kids as circuit designers, but maybe we should.
And by teaching engineering students to think like earth scientists and earth-science students who can think like engineers, my lab is building an environment in which we can build custom radar sensors for each problem at hand, that are optimized for low cost and high performance for that problem.
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