Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 4, 2021

This is the second time we’ve grown an executive from within. One year ago, I wrote a similar post welcoming Emily Nakashima to her new role as VP of Engineering. At Honeycomb, it’s important to me that we promote people and hire from within, and that we be transparent about what we choose to reward as an organization.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

We hope the information will be useful for DevOps specialists, product managers, CTOs, and other executives seeking ways to improve the reliability of their systems without victimizing the speed of innovations. The primary focus of SRE is system reliability which is considered the most fundamental feature of any product.

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