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.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers. This is good.

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CircleCI

JUNE 16, 2022

This Continuous Improvement starts with one important company value: a blameless culture. Our blameless culture extends into every part of how we operate. It allows us to build trust among our different engineering teams, and it’s crucial to how we approach incidents, learn from them, and prevent them from happening again.

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Tandem

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Tandem’s custom software engineering team works collaboratively to create products for our clients. For today’s Tandem Roundtable, our engineering managers (Mercedes, Chris, and Kate) sat down to discuss how they create opportunities for career growth, cultivate an inclusive workplace culture, and support each other along the way.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Stretch conference is a 2-day international conference that brings together community leaders and managers who are interested in sharing stories, hands-on solutions, and exploring new trends and ideas to become a better version of themselves. Event organizers. You can read more about the speakers here.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Mike: I wish I had the crystal ball for this, but I hope that when the market starts picking up again (rapidly I’m inclined to think) that companies will have to adopt more and higher levels of support for the employees as it relates to culture, DEI, and general happiness. Rado: Prioritization, team time, and environment management.

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Accenture

APRIL 16, 2018

I learned a lot more about the India market than I knew growing up there, and I met interesting people, not the least among them leaders looking for ways to drive change in their organizations. Back in 2014, I had an interesting conversation over dinner with the CEO of a large office supply organization based out of United States.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 15, 2019

How should remote engineers support themselves, since they lack the interpersonal support of a co-located office? Nassim Kammah , who recently joined Elastic as a Senior Engineering Manager, believes that leading a distributed team is really not so different than leading a co-located one. Prioritize self-care.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

So, metrics must be a positive driver for the culture you want to build. Or, it could signal challenges in managing work across distributed teams and multiple time zones. Cycle time is a great metric because all engineering organizations want a quick turnaround from code to production. Building a Culture of Measurement.

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. If they also manage the development team, they will solely represent engineering in the senior leadership team. As a result, they do not work cross-functionally.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Meetings can be the lifeblood of any organization, allowing coworkers to check in with one another, exchange ideas and solve problems. But, for engineers moving up the career ladder, the mounting number of meetings expected of engineering managers can end up being a distraction that does more harm than good.

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Gorilla Logic

JUNE 10, 2019

Leveraging the experience gained and the organization that’s in place in Costa Rica, we have built a second Nearshore Development Center in the tech- and culture-forward city of Medellín, Colombia. The Culture of Delivery That Makes This Possible. Talented and forward-looking engineers desire challenges and engaging projects.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Michael Lopp discuss the small practices that make a good leader. Listen to learn about building trust, respect, and relationships in a leadership role. Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. @2:29. Leadership is a skill. @3:32.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Michael Lopp discuss the small practices that make a good leader. Listen to learn about building trust, respect, and relationships in a leadership role. Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. @2:29. Leadership is a skill. @3:32.

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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.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. Welcome, Monica! I never looked back.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

However, of the organizations that have pursued digitization, 79 percent of them are still in the early stages of their technology transformation. In order to architect modular platforms a CIO needs revamped approaches to hiring in order to get top-flight engineers. Every CIO can agree that this is a pressing need.

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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 27, 2021

This concept is of fundamental importance for Engineering Managers and one I realized the importance of after reading The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt. Indeed, as many successful organizations do, I had it as my main piece of compulsory reading when onboarding new starters.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 8, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. A lot of us like to think that we’re running and working for inclusive organizations. In today’s engineering world, those two concepts are continents apart. “By

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Praxent

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Praxent’s culture is built upon our team, and we work hard to recognize the vision and knowledge of each team member. ” As a manager, how well does Praxent’s remote culture work? Jared Cobb – Engineering Manager: “I think that the remote culture is pretty strong at Praxent and it’s only getting stronger.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 28, 2015

These two things together – learning that I needed more influence myself and that it was better to engage employees in improving their own jobs, led me to doing a lot of research and ultimately enrolling in an MBA program with a focus on leadership and change management. Here I am, eight years after leaving engineering behind.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 23, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. As an engineering manager, you’re concerned with your team delivering the best products they can, as efficiently as they can.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

What if we could create a trade culture that allowed for change rather than relying on mechanical thinking? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, GeePaw Hill, discuss how the doubling rate in the software industry has resulted in a complete lack of trade discipline. Episode 39. Show Notes. David Marquet.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2014

Ryan Blue – Product Engineer, Cloudera. Eric Sammer – Engineering Manager, Cloudera Cloudera 4:15 PM Adjourn/Networking Social. As CSO, Mike is responsible for Cloudera’s product strategy, open source leadership, engineering alignment and direct engagement with customers.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Shipping is your company’s heartbeat.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

There are many reasons people choose to leave their jobs and in this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus dissects the top reasons software professional decide to seek other employment and ways to prevent future turnover from occurring. Unsatisfied with leadership of senior management. Episode 28. ?Turnover Show Notes.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2018

In the context of engineering teams, high-performing teams usually show a bit of discontent and frustration which the traditional model of engagement (e.g. In the context of engineering teams, Demands refer to an individual, team, work, or organisation related challenges that require sustained cognitive and/or emotional effort.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 21, 2013

This is a must attend event for any organization or agency looking to be information-driven and give access to more data to more resources and applications. Ryan Blue – Product Engineer, Cloudera, Sean Busbey – Solution Architect, Cloudera Government Solutions, Inc., Eric Sammer, Engineering Manager, Cloudera.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Shipping is your company’s heartbeat.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Jennifer Jones-Patulli, discuss how people tend to think about conflict and how they handle it. Jennifer provides insight and tools to use as leaders to help handle conflict situations within an organization and among staff. Cultures approach conflict differently.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 28, 2020

Work with senior management to design and align on appropriate metrics, and make sure that executive leadership agrees and consents to using them before starting your experiments and developing your AI products in earnest. Augmenting AI Product Management with Technical Leadership. Data Quality and Standardization.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Jason Wong discuss how one size does not fit all in leadership. They dive into how the traditional leadership model isn’t working well and how it could be changed to become more effective. The traditional leadership model isn’t working well.

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Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

How do you get from one team, where everybody fits around a conference table, to the Amazon-style or Google-sized organization?” asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Shoup himself has worked as an engineering leader with several companies of various sizes during periods of intense scaling over the last three decades.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 10, 2019

On today’s episode of Programming Leadership, we dive into what is needed to establish safety in your own organization. The people who make up your organization are an integral part of the safety structure. Marcus: Welcome to Programming Leadership. Modernagile.org. Transcript. Welcome, Tim.

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scruminc

JANUARY 26, 2022

This blog is an excerpt of an upcoming case study that examines John Deere’s Agile culture, approach, and success. . Jay Strief, the Group Engineering Manager of Supply Chain Solutions, connects this success in part to managing through supply chain issues and puts it in personal terms. “The Overcoming V.U.C.A.:

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Choose the zones that your organization both needs and is willing to pay for , as described in the “Choose Your Zones” section at the end of the previous chapter. 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. probably not.

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. As a company scales, it’s inevitable that individuals will grow farther removed from other people, projects, and initiatives in the organization.

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