Culture Energy Part-Time VPE Performance 
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.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 19, 2022
There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.
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Gitprime
DECEMBER 31, 2018
GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. Go focus all your energy and innovation on that.
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.
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.
James Shore
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Performance and morale decline. Feelings of chaos decrease, morale improves, and performance climbs. Performance has stabilized at a higher level than before the change, and continues to increase gradually as people experiment with further small changes. If not, you can hire consultants. Some days are good; some are bad.
James Shore
OCTOBER 15, 2020
In addition, Agile practices often perform double- and triple-duty, solving multiple software development problems simultaneously and supporting each other in clever and surprising ways. Continuous improvement is an integral part of being Agile, so shouldn’t you kaizen your way to Agile in the first place? Counterintuively.
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