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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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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

This normalized parenting in a way I’ve never experienced in a job before: one point from today's incident review "what went well" section: > [employee] felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

This normalized parenting in a way I’ve never experienced in a job before: one point from today's incident review "what went well" section: > [employee] felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. In the West, it’s come to mean a process of continuous gradual improvement: constantly reviewing and improving your practices at all levels of the organization. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. How to Be Agile.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help. If not, you can hire consultants.

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