Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. Where do you put the contracts in place? Davis is a self-described architect. Where do you put the APIs?

Part-Time VPE 58

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Fractional VPE 58

Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. These cultural changes that have led us to shift our expectations for managers have traveled from the bottom up. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong. Those are opportunities you can create to stretch engineers,” he says. Develop a means of cultural acknowledgment.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

Battery Ventures

APRIL 8, 2019

It can be daunting to trust a challenging and high-stakes process to an outside consultant. A former boss of mine was a recruiter who only did VP of engineering and CTO searches. We got the search as a result of his expertise in the market. A retained recruiter is working for you exclusively, as a consultant.

Part-Time VPE 40

Part-Time VPE Recruiting Fractional VPE Fractional CTO 40

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Without it, the mismatch between your teams’ Agile practices and your organization’s non-Agile culture will cause constant friction. Counterintuively.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94