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

JANUARY 5, 2021

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. No Q4 code freezes for us. no oversharing or prying).

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. No Q4 code freezes for us. no oversharing or prying).

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. As we’ve seen in the previous chapters, Agile is a philosophy: a way of thinking about software development. The majority of this book—parts two through four—is dedicated to a curated set of Agile practices that have been proven in practice. How to Be Agile.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. If not, you can hire consultants. Continuous improvement is an integral part of 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. Counterintuively.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

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Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane. What is Workplace Productivity?

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