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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Happily, all these things turned out to be true and are still true to this day.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

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).” When it was originally posted, back in 2018, it was timely. I’m also no longer primarily a line manager myself.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

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 Why management matters. That’s the strictly cynical financial justification for where managers fit.”.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. As Charity has repeated so frequently, shipping is the heartbeat of your organization. .

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. As Charity has repeated so frequently, shipping is the heartbeat of your organization. .

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Resilient management has to do with making sure your bucket of energy is healthy. @35:01. When thinking about being cut out for management, it’s about given the context, responsibility, and people you work with, does this work for you? @36:52. Marcus: Why did you feel this was the right time for this book?

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

The majority of this book—parts two through four—is dedicated to a curated set of Agile practices that have been proven in practice. 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. Counterintuively. probably not.

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