Articles by Jossie Haines
Jossie Haines has spent 20 years in the tech industry as an engineering leader at the forefront of emerging technology across Silicon Valley, including management roles at Apple, Tile, Zynga and American Express. She is currently VP of Software Engineering at Tile and leads the mobile, backend, web, and platform engineering teams that empower users to find millions of lost items every day. She also heads up the diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across Tile, and started the Tile mentoring program. Jossie is on a mission to keep women in tech. She spends her free time speaking about retaining women in tech, empathy in engineering, and effective and fair management practices that reduce bias and empower all team members to thrive. She has given over 40 talks in the last 2 years including at the Grace Hopper, and Empowered Women of the World conferences.
Finding a company with an inclusive engineering cultureThis article is written from the perspective of an outside job applicant and provides a useful checklist, which can also be used internally to help predict how your D&I efforts will be perceived.
- How you can use the SPACE framework to measure inclusion on developer teams
Jossie explains how the SPACE framework for measuring developer productivity (Satisfaction and well-being, Performance, Activity, Communication and collaboration, Efficiency and flow) can be adapted to measure inclusion.
- How to launch a successful mentorship program
Jossie walks us through a 6-step process for launching and managing an internal mentorship program that she used at Tile: • Launching a Mentoring Program • Timeline and Process for Mentoring • Mentor/Mentee Matchmaking • Mentorship Training • Analysis of Mentoring • End of Mentoring Celebration