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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

It is not ok for heartbeats to be a special case, constrained to tightly controlled windows. 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. No Q4 code freezes for us.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

It is not ok for heartbeats to be a special case, constrained to tightly controlled windows. 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. No Q4 code freezes for us.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

The further you go on the management ladder, the more doing a good job in your role can become decoupled from appearing to your team to do a good job in your role. Managing and making management visible turn out to be two mostly distinct groups of skills.