Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. Scaling startups are often concerned with the first inflection point of their team size.

Part-Time VPE 58

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Fractional VPE 58

Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. We grow so fast,” Nightingale says of tech companies, “and we’re often run by founders who have not themselves experienced great management.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Part-Time VPE Organization 40

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. People need to grow and develop skills in order to move within the framework.

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” My priority number one had been to “run engineering well.” Early in my career, I had the experience of working for a company where everything felt broken but it wasn’t clear why.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98