Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” When it was originally posted, back in 2018, it was timely. I’m also no longer primarily a line manager myself.

Engineering 145

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

With that, the argument that they should put a people-managers on their payroll, where it sounds like their only job is for them to tell other people what to do, feels like a real waste.”. At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Part-Time VPE Organization 40

Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain. We started hiring remote folks, and we wanted to reduce that abstraction,” he says. Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams. Use high-touch onboarding.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

Taking on an engineering leadership role can be disorienting for fresh recruits from the engineering ranks and seasoned veterans alike. Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering).

Coaching 45

Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 45

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Like it’s exciting to have this new opportunity, new sets of skills to develop, but also, it’s a lot of responsibility, and people get no training. So normally, the way I support managers is like writing and coaching and those kinds of things, but like I am not their manager. I don’t know what I’m doing.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 52

Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. 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.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94