Engineering Culture Engineering Management Organization Software Engineering 
James Shore
APRIL 27, 2024
It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Culture doesn’t change easily. Too many, possibly.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 3, 2023
I created a visualization of the major types of engineering work I saw our teams complete in a quarter: It’s easy to quibble with the specific labels and the categories I’ve stuck them under, and in another organization these might be the wrong set or the wrong categories. Interested in reading more about engineering management?
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Honeycomb
MAY 15, 2024
It’s through a combination of technical artifacts, organizational practices and policies, and pure gumption that they manage to maintain themselves through time. However, there are some organizations that seem to have an easier time of it than others. Software is both a product of and part of a sociotechnical system.
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. I had enough experience at early-stage startups to know that, if the company is successful, you’ll probably do a whole host of things as the company moves through different phases.
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.
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