Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

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. When a team tackles a critical project, it’s convenient and tempting to put only the top engineers on it.

Part-Time VPE 58

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Fractional VPE 58

Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies. Before transitioning into coaching and consulting, he was the VP of Firefox for Mozilla through a period of intense turmoil (during which he helped build and launch the first Firefox offerings on Android and iPhone).

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Part-Time VPE Organization 40

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. A small change with ripple effects.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. A small change with ripple effects.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52