Engineering Manifestos

Anand Mariappan, VPE, Impira, shares his experience inheriting and running the engineering team and adapting to remote work. He also provides an overview of his 3Ps framework for enabling people to do their best work, by equipping them with the right processes and a clear sense of purpose.

• 4:00 [Objectives] Focus on time to market
• 9:30 [Company Values] Empathy (Virtual Water-cooler/Virtual Coffee and other ways to stay connected with the team)
• 14:10 [Engineering Values] Transparency (The team that sees reality the best wins - Jim Dethmer)
• 16:08 [Engineering Values] Autonomy (Enabling the team to reach their full potential)
• 21:00 [Hiring] Two-way (Company and Candidate) evaluation for fit
• 27:05 [Engineering Levels] Career Ladder (Working with the team to identify desired Engineering values & traits at each level)
• 31:25 [Team Structure] Frameworks for team structure (Product Versions, Use cases, User scenarios, Product Functionality) and resource allocation (Feature Dev/Foundation/Moonshot  ideas, Core Product/New initiatives/Moonshot ideas)
• 37:35 [Architectural Decisions] (Leveraging Brain Trust from Pixar)
• 42:25 [On-boarding] 3-4 person team (Manager, Engineering mentor, Engineering buddy, Cross-functional buddy)
• 50:00 [Testing] Balancing product quality expectations, time to market and available resources
• 53:10 [Adding Capacity vs Optimizing Software] Focus on understanding the bottlenecks and starting with optimization

Fabiano Botelho, Founding Engineer (#2) and Fellow/VPE, Rubrik, shares his journey as an Engineering leader at Rubrik on helping build the teams and product lines for 1.0 and beyond. He also provides insights into his experience with scaling & growing the Engineering team at Rubrik.

• 5:25 [Objectives] Focus on building the system and getting to market fast
• 11:05 [Values] Examples of Rubrik values in action (RIVET)
• 22:02 [Collaboration] Building a connected team & traits of good mentors for helping scale an organization
• 33:30 [On-boarding & Off-boarding] Welcoming and bidding farewell to team members
• 39:17 [Tools(Programming Languages/Frameworks)] Picking the right tool for the job while balancing cognitive overload
• 44:20 [Architectural Decisions] Empowering the team to make & own their decisions
• 50:10 [Company Building] Enjoy the ride with the people

• 8:37 Everyone owns quality
• 15:00 Customizing development methodologies to work for your company culture; Building & Operating SaaS (BOSS), a page from VMware’s Engineering Manifesto
• 27:30 Book recommendation for leaders or anyone involved in Engineering/Technology development; Hiring for values without undermining diversity; Metaphor for thinking about your teams
• 34:30 Psychological safety for effective Post-mortems and readouts
• 44:44 DevOps vs SRE; Promoting collaboration between Development engineers & SREs; Developing SREs
• 49:35 Psychological safety for effective Pre-mortems (Production Readiness Assessment (PRA))
• 55:30 Managing error budgets