Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We Why management matters. That’s the strictly cynical financial justification for where managers fit.”.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Part-Time VPE Organization 40

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

I created a visualization of the major types of engineering work I saw our teams complete in a quarter: It’s easy to quibble with the specific labels and the categories I’ve stuck them under, and in another organization these might be the wrong set or the wrong categories. Struggling to negotiate time for tech debt?

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

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. Use high-touch onboarding.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Lara: Of course there’s a donut in there, you know a little merit badge that says kept going because we got to celebrate the fact that this yeah. And when you said tools, of course, I started thinking about spreadsheets, and then I realized it’s a box. Marcus: Why did you feel this was the right time for this book?

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 52

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

There is an inherent difference between leaders and managers that is often overlooked. While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Katie’s journey into management. Transitioning others into management and bumps along the way. I am VP of Engineering over there.

Engineering 58

Engineering Leadership Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 58

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

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Exactly how disruptive it is depends on how many teams are affected and how well you manage the change. If you have one team that’s eager to try Agile with your organization’s full support, it doesn’t have to be a big deal. If you’re trying to change 50 teams in an organization that’s unfamiliar with Agile ideas.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94