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James Shore
APRIL 27, 2024
It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Culture doesn’t change easily. It tends to snap back.
Honeycomb
MAY 15, 2024
It’s through a combination of technical artifacts, organizational practices and policies, and pure gumption that they manage to maintain themselves through time. However, there are some organizations that seem to have an easier time of it than others. Some parts of the organization may understand them as a blessing and others a curse.
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Honeycomb
JULY 12, 2023
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.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 3, 2023
I created a visualization of the major types of engineering work I saw our teams complete in a quarter: It’s easy to quibble with the specific labels and the categories I’ve stuck them under, and in another organization these might be the wrong set or the wrong categories. Interested in reading more about engineering management?
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. Despite many people shifting schedules to manage family responsibilities, we continued to ship about a dozen times every weekday. Shipping is your company’s heartbeat.
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. Despite many people shifting schedules to manage family responsibilities, we continued to ship about a dozen times every weekday. Shipping is your company’s heartbeat.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2022
Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s
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