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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. Where do you put the contracts in place?

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” After all, Wijegunawardena has discovered that engineers learn best not by one-on-one consultation with a mentor, but by doing the work with their mentors and senior peers. Well, they have a lot more data.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

Before transitioning into coaching and consulting, he was the VP of Firefox for Mozilla through a period of intense turmoil (during which he helped build and launch the first Firefox offerings on Android and iPhone). Director: “At the director level, we expect you to be informing overall strategy,” Nightingale explains.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

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: I was hoping there’d be a donut. ” Marcus: Yeah.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

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.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. The VP liked what I had to say. Reaching the Economic Buyer.

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From Engineer to Executive: An Interview with Eric Muntz of MailChimp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

For a short period of time, worked for the government doing web development and then actually started a consulting business in Atlanta where my main client was the Federal Government in Washington D.C. It was a very small little consulting practice. Consulting is great.” Eric: I joined as an engineer. Marcus: I do.