Kevin Stewart
How to build a startup engineering team
Advice for when you’re starting from scratch and designing for growth.
This issue of Increment offers structural, organizational, and personal approaches to building empathy, fostering collaboration, and growing productivity.

Advice for when you’re starting from scratch and designing for growth.

A short treatise on rewarding value over volume.

A commitment to trust, fairness, and inclusion is at the heart of a strong company—and healthy teams.

And what do we even mean when we say “technical”?

How thoughtful systems (and lots of emoji) make for happy, efficient teams—whether your desks are distributed across floors, cities, or continents.
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.
An introduction to correcting—and preventing—compensation inequity.
Leaders at 1Password, Atlassian, and Intuit share how they measure success, determine focus, and foster mentorship, sustainability, and collaboration in their organizations.

Revisiting the team and technology that transformed automated banking—and the look of your checkbook.

Though they run on a mixture of paper and lore, effective editorial organizations ship like clockwork. Can engineering teams learn from their enduring processes?

Insight for developers considering making a move from individual contributor to engineering manager.

Studies show that human factors most influence the quality of our work. So why do we put so much stake in technical solutions?

How a group of university students transformed a school project into a media-player mainstay.
CircleCI’s director of engineering shares ideas for promoting positivity and inclusion—and shifting away from “culture fit.”
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 . . . )
A story of how filmmaking, graphic design, and copywriting all improved a software project—and how similarly diverse skill sets might improve others.

A focus on small teams anchored the organization’s growth from three to 2,300.
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