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Product Managing to Prevent Burnout

Honeycomb

The energy is there. I don’t see burnout mentioned often when the work of product management is discussed, but I believe it should be taken much more seriously. But personally, I think that way of working is a dereliction of my responsibilities, and a willful ignorance of product team power structures.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. No Q4 code freezes for us. And the things we’re planning to do are so.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. No Q4 code freezes for us. And the things we’re planning to do are so.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

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 requires management support. Ensure each team includes a product manager or has a product manager they can work with.

Agile 94
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JAMstack conference, San Francisco 2019 - the JAMstack at scale

Netlify

And both have fed into the energy and anticipation of JAMstack_conf San Francisco 2019. Cultural and organisational impacts and opportunities for the JAMstack. After her work as an engineering manager at a number of technology companies she has emerged as a leading voice in strategies for UI frameworks and architectures.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

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. If you want to be Agile, you need management support. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team.

Agile 103