Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Honeycomb, the company. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. So many wins in 2020.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. As a company scales, it’s inevitable that individuals will grow farther removed from other people, projects, and initiatives in the organization.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Continuous improvement is an integral part of being Agile, so shouldn’t you kaizen your way to Agile in the first place? If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Get Management Buy-In.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

You’ve figured out which investments your company needs to make. Exactly how disruptive it is depends on how many teams are affected and how well you manage the change. Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. If not, you can hire consultants. Don’t skimp.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

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

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

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. So what exactly does career growth mean, and how can managers and leaders invest in it?

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

And that’s the stage where many of us don’t know what to do to usher in the next era of our company. asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Shoup himself has worked as an engineering leader with several companies of various sizes during periods of intense scaling over the last three decades.

Organization 81

Organization Technology Minimum Viable Product Part-Time VPE 81