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Oren Ellenbogen
September 16, 2015
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TheLeadDeveloper - Building happier engineering teams
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Oren Ellenbogen
September 16, 2015
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talk” – said no one, ever. Until now.
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We’re beautiful snowflakes
Head of Engineering @ Forter I write at Lnbogen.com I
tweet @orenellenbogen + Oren Ellenbogen
SoftwareLeadWeekly.com LeadingSnowflakes.com
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photo credit bennylin0724
• Amazing mission statement organize the world’s information and make
it universally accessible and useful • Hard to iterate fast (process heavy) • Incredible technology MapReduce, Google FS etc.
• Awesome mission statement make the world more open and
connected • Fast iterations, small teams • Great technology (+ leftovers) PHP – I’m looking at you!
• Some lame mission statement print money, and that’s pretty
much it. • Fast iterations, small teams • Great technology, incredible scale!
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(your engineers)
Explicitly hire for: People who can prioritize & get things
done on their own They focus on autonomy
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Changing code -> … -> something breaks -> lack of
trust -> slower cycle (process++) -> new department of [trust issue] -> still breaks … -> death (of happiness)
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Changing code -> … -> something breaks -> quick release
+ retrospect -> automate/test stuff -> still breaks -> quick release + retrospect -> automate/test stuff -> …
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http://www.slideshare.net/HubSpot/the-hubspot-culture-code-creating-a-company-we-love http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
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“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make
it universally accessible and useful. WTF?
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The last person to join the company is responsible to
create a “starter kit” for the next one to join
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VP SEO at TripAdvisor
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Onboarding process for your building blocks
Scaling your DNA
Scheduling time for non-urgent tasks https://medium.com/life-at-obvious/3231f644a8b1
“ One day I will work for a company that
does something like this. ”
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https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash
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http://randsinrepose.com/archives/bored-people-quit/
Junior Engineers Practice, practice, practice Experienced Engineers Practice, lead, build
organizational trust Veteran Engineers Become an expert or pivot (+mentor as a Bar Raiser)
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photo credit bennylin0724