James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. I’ve hired several XP coaches to help, but even they’re stretched thin. Because I want your feedback.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” The software engineering community was rethinking some long-held ideas about engineering career paths. This is good.

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NeverFriday

JULY 18, 2019

I wrote two articles that have been published that list interview questions you can ask when interviewing engineering manager and senior software engineer candidates. 10+ Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 16, 2021

This book is ideal whether you’re a new manager, a mentor, or a more experienced leader looking for fresh advice. Pick up this book and learn how to become a better manager and leader in your organization. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp.

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

One of the largest software developer conferences in the region, with unmissable talks and workshops between 31 May to 3 June. Craft Conference is an event where any type of engineers, team leaders, agile coaches, engineering managers, executives/founders, UX/product people could learn a lot.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Software Crafters Barcelona is a two day event which aims to attract and connect software development professionals. Understand your systems with OpenTelemetry by Carolina Zhou Lin – Software Engineer at Voxel Group and Xavier Belloso – Senior Software Engineer en baVel – Voxel Group.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 10, 2022

Managers facilitate a lot of decision-making and routing of people and data and things, and it’s very easy to slip into making all decisions rather than empowering people to make them. But if you let all the power drift over to the engineering managers, pretty soon it doesn’t look so great to be an engineer.

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