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. So many wins in 2020. No Q4 code freezes for us.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

Battery Ventures

APRIL 8, 2019

If your startup is growing, you’re hiring. And if you’re hiring senior-level talent, you probably need an outside recruiter. Few in-house recruiters have the expertise or network that a professional, third-party recruiter offers. However, there’s good news: The right recruiter does much more than hire someone.

Part-Time VPE 40

Part-Time VPE Recruiting Fractional VPE Fractional CTO 40

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

How to Be Agile. Choose one of the rough edges, make an educated guess about how to improve, observe what happens, and repeat. The majority of this book—parts two through four—is dedicated to a curated set of Agile practices that have been proven in practice. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

Battery Ventures

MARCH 1, 2019

I once worked with a first-time CEO who needed to hire a VP of sales. He wanted to take charge of the hiring process—then I learned he was preparing by Googling “How to interview VP’s of sales.”. As a recruiter, I see too many companies jump into interviewing candidates before they know what they want.

Part-Time VPE 55

Part-Time VPE Weak Development Team Culture Recruiting 55

Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Here’s how they apply to Agile: 1 Steven Smith has a good article on the Satir model at [link] that includes tips for helping team members through each stage. Everyone knows what’s expected of them and how to do their job. Help people understand how to do their job in the changed environment. If not, you can hire consultants.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

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.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

With an eye on the long-term health of our teams, our engineers, and our companies, that latter responsibility is at least as critical as the products we deliver. So what exactly does career growth mean, and how can managers and leaders invest in it? How do you create a tangible sense of growth for engineers between promotions?

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

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. I’ve never found a problem where a team was too big to be one team, but it wasn’t obvious how to subdivide it.”.

Organization 81

Organization Technology Minimum Viable Product Part-Time VPE 81