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This issue offers structural, organizational, and personal approaches to building empathy, fostering collaboration, and growing productivity.
Liz Fong-Jones
Code less, engineer more
A short treatise on rewarding value over volume.
Anil Dash
Doing (a little bit of) the impossible
A commitment to trust, fairness, and inclusion is at the heart of a strong company—and healthy teams.
Will Larson
Do engineering managers need to be technical?
And what do we even mean when we say “technical”?
Juan Pablo Buriticá and Katie Womersley
A guide to distributed teams
How thoughtful systems (and lots of emoji) make for happy, efficient teams—whether your desks are distributed across floors, cities, or continents.Poornima Apte
Interview: Megan Smith
The CEO of Shift7—and former CTO of the United States—on solution-making, team-building, and establishing technical ecosystems outside of the private sector.Lara Hogan
Pay fair
An introduction to correcting—and preventing—compensation inequity.Increment Staff
Engineering teams at scale
Leaders at 1Password, Atlassian, and Intuit share how they measure success, determine focus, and foster mentorship, sustainability, and collaboration in their organizations.
Hannah H. Kim
ERMA’s whiz kids
Revisiting the team and technology that transformed automated banking—and the look of your checkbook.
Paul Ford
Trust the process
Though they run on a mixture of paper and lore, effective editorial organizations ship like clockwork. Can engineering teams learn from their enduring processes?
Kaya Thomas
The path to management
Insight for developers considering making a move from individual contributor to engineering manager.
Hillel Wayne
The epistemology of software quality
Studies show that human factors most influence the quality of our work. So why do we put so much stake in technical solutions?
Chris Stokel-Walker
The team that powers VLC
How a group of university students transformed a school project into a media-player mainstay.Lena Reinhard
Ask an expert: How do you interview an engineer?
CircleCI’s director of engineering shares ideas for promoting positivity and inclusion—and shifting away from “culture fit.”David J. Lumb
Decoding job titles
How trends, specificity, and preference shape job titles, and how job titles impact the careers and livelihoods of developers (a.k.a. software engineers, a.k.a. programmers, a.k.a. coders . . . )Przemek Smyrdek
A place for polymaths
A story of how filmmaking, graphic design, and copywriting all improved a software project—and how similarly diverse skill sets might improve others.
Ott Kaukver
The process: How Twilio scaled its engineering structure
A focus on small teams anchored the organization’s growth from three to 2,300.
