Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

The diagram below is one effort to identify more granular labels that I assembled for an internal meeting. Business stakeholders then get handed a clearer tradeoff: do we invest now, or do we decide meeting our 99.9% Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We wanted to showcase and demystify this part of our engineering team by interviewing several of our engineers to share their experiences in their own words. Meet some of our backend engineers… Bryan Mikaelian. We’ve cut down the number of meetings we have weekly by improving our async communication.

Engineering 52

Engineering Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 52

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. A few title changes along the way were useful backward-looking markers of progress, but they didn’t often denote major changes in scope beyond (usually) new meetings to attend.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering B2C Technical Review 98

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.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

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.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

MAKE BIG DECISIONS IN MEETINGS, RATHER THAN IN ASYNCHRONOUS CHATS. So while Slack and its counterparts are great for chatter and asynchronous chats, Buffer now schedules synchronous meetings for making the big decisions. No one is expected to attend a 7:00 PM meeting every night simply because they’re in a different time zone.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

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. But I want to at least demonstrate that I’m going to try and meet the challenge.”

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52