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by anayar 2169 days ago
This is awesome, thanks for sharing that! Can I ask a quick prying question -- who writes these principles and who approves them over on your end?

Effectively trying to gauge - is it grassroots and from the ground up, implemented and vetted by the engineers or is it more top-down "we need a way to align engineering at scale" development?

Mostly wondering about adoption and imagining whether my approach of pushing this into our team is the way to go or if it's worth allowing a collective to determine the working principles. Sorry for all the questions, you sparked my curiosity :)

Cheers!

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My pleasure, glad it was interesting.

It's a semi-grassroots initiative, there is a steering committee made up of various engineers, some of whom are involved in engineering education. The work is supported by senior engineering leadership.

The other core idea is that these principles are internally open source, and as such are there to be refined by engineers.