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

Honeycomb

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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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. You can’t make your systems better if you don’t first make sure you’re thinking about the humans included in those systems. no oversharing or prying). So many wins in 2020.

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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. You can’t make your systems better if you don’t first make sure you’re thinking about the humans included in those systems. no oversharing or prying). So many wins in 2020.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. In the West, it’s come to mean a process of continuous gradual improvement: constantly reviewing and improving your practices at all levels of the organization. If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. probably not.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. If not, you can hire consultants. 4 Kaizen was imported to Agile from Lean Manufacturing, which itself is based on the revolutionary Toyota Production System—hence the Japanese terminology. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally.

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