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

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).” When it was originally posted, back in 2018, it was timely. I’m also no longer primarily a line manager myself.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. Their conversation covered everything from how startups should think about management and how to hire for it, to “troubleshooting” management. Why management matters. The tree structure.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

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. — Alex Hidalgo (@ahidalgosre) December 24, 2020. So many wins in 2020.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

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. — Alex Hidalgo (@ahidalgosre) December 24, 2020. So many wins in 2020.

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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

Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help. If not, you can hire consultants. Get Management Buy-In. Agile requires management support.

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