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Stop Telling Devs What To Do w/ GitHub's Dana Lawson

As the VP of Engineering at GitHub, Dana Lawson’s team makes decisions that change the development workflows for millions of people at a time. On this episode of Dev Interrupted we chat about the role of technical leadership, how to implement continuous improvement, and how positivity relates to dev team culture.

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Episode Highlights include:

  • The real role of technical leadership
  • What engineering metrics Dana tracks at GitHub
  • How to implement continuous improvement workflows
  • How positivity relates to productivity in engineering culture

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