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Employees – and not just engineers – often have access
to
real time business metrics and data sources,
to
write their own queries and create custom reports.
Exposure
to
the business and
to
business metrics.
Engineers are encouraged
to
interact with the rest of the business and build relationships with non-engineers.
In contrast, traditional companies often make it impossible for developers
to
interact with the rest of the business.
Companies that leverage engineers well, have no trouble paying close
to
the top of the market, or above it.
These companies hire highly competent and highly motivated people, thanks
to
the combination of all the above.
They have a large pool
to
choose from, as they are known for generous compensation packages, and strong career growth opportunities.
While not all teams within Big Tech will be fully empowered, these organizations – along with progressive thinking startups – are closest
to
implementing ways that ensure teams are as empowered as possible.
Each team of 5-15 people has a clear vision and mission, and the skills and autonomy
to
execute on it.
The mission could be “Build a world-class booking experience for seniors” for a product team on a hospitality product, or “Empower teams
to
integrate rating experiences with close
to
zero effort” for a product platform team.
Platform-focused teams tend
to
not be cross-functional or tied
to
a specific domain.
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.
The role of product managers at these companies is defining the strategy at the team – the “why” – and the steps
to
execute this strategy – the “how”.
It’s finding worthwhile areas
to
invest in and creating a compelling vision for how we can succeed in this game.
It’s the day-to-day processes, decisions and actions we take
to
make progress towards our mission.”
This means working with the business, with data science and with design
to
build a roadmap, create plans, prioritize work and escalate where needed.
Big Tech pulls in Technical Project Managers (TPMs)
to
manage these complex, and often strategic projects, taking the load off engineers.
They are typically tied
to
external-facing commitments and customers – such as a Program Manager for the Apple partnership – or
to
long-running initiatives, like a compliance program.
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.
However, our shipping pace was only every two weeks, but we wanted
to
ship more frequently.
Now we no longer had
to
wait days for feedback before shipping code
to
production.
The whole idea of Scrum revolves around Sprints, of committing
to
tasks at the beginning of the sprint, working on these during the sprint, and demoing what we did at the end.
We soon moved
to
a more fluid way of working, taking the Kanban approach.
That the work is not being shipped
to
production before the signoff is done.
We shipped our code behind feature flags, and validated them with staged rollouts, starting with a rollout
to
the team.
CI/CD, feature flags and experimentation tooling allowed us
to
have faster feedback cycles than relying on a Product Owner.
Much of Big Tech has recognized how first-class infrastructure and developer tooling make a big difference
to
the productivity for engineering teams.
With first-class infrastructure and platforms ready
to
use, teams can focus on their core work goals, over figuring out how
to
set up infrastructure, or how
to
make a service compliant.
Our end goal was
to
ship Skype’s web functionality.
This approach was made up of several sub-projects, but the big picture was clear
to
the team.
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