Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We Hiring leaders in your organization.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Part-Time VPE Organization 40

Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

This includes a diverse set of topics, like how to scale development, how to create great company culture, how to create growing/innovation mindset, how to create an experimental culture, agile/lean practices etc. To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up.

Conference 59

Conference Software Review Technical Review Systems Review 59

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

I have often been that engineer (and later that manager ) struggling to come to alignment with my stakeholders on when and how to pay down tech debt. Looking back, I realize how often the source of that disagreement was a fundamental misunderstanding of what the work was and why it was valuable to the business.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

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. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

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

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. — Alex Hidalgo (@ahidalgosre) December 24, 2020.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

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. — Alex Hidalgo (@ahidalgosre) December 24, 2020.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

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 2, 2019

One of the primary reasons to build a distributed engineering organization is that a company is not limited by geographic boundaries. For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. Start by building a network and a brand.

Part-Time VPE 76

Part-Time VPE Engineering Fractional VPE Fractional CTO 76

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

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. How do you lay out architecture and things? Watch the full panel discussion below.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. Such end-to-end continuity is paramount to reduce time to market and make rapid changes. Whereas, SRE prescribes how this can be done.

DevOps 96

DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

That being said while producing this content piece, the first thing I did was hop onto Google and gain deeper insights into how productive an average employee is throughout the day. This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. That’s insane. After all, who doesn’t?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

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

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

That being said while producing this content piece, the first thing I did was hop onto Google and gain deeper insights into how productive an average employee is throughout the day. This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. That’s insane.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

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