Engineering Culture Engineering Management Examples Performance 
James Shore
APRIL 27, 2024
Enough that I don’t do any coding myself, and the managers that report to me don’t have time to do much either.) What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway. It tends to snap back. This makes room for a lot more skills.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 3, 2023
For example, MEDDIC —or the variant I’m more familiar with, MEDDPICC. For example, for our customer-facing web application, we might set an SLO that 99.9% By setting a shared expectation up front for how services should perform, teams are then able to frame the need for scaling and reliability work in terms of risk to the SLO.
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Honeycomb
JULY 12, 2023
I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. In retrospect, the most interesting transition along the whole journey for me was probably moving from managing only ICs to also managing managers.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2021
Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. In Q1 we promoted Emily Nakashima to VP of Engineering , and we hired two more engineering managers in Q4.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2021
Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. In Q1 we promoted Emily Nakashima to VP of Engineering , and we hired two more engineering managers in Q4.
LaunchDarkly
JUNE 12, 2020
Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers.
Gitprime
MAY 30, 2019
” She offers an example of hypothetical West Coast hires who will be working with European teammates. Neither extreme allowed her teams to perform consistently or efficiently. “I And the same goes for distributed managers, as well—particularly when an organization is starting to go remote.
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