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

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

How to Be Agile. Choose one of the rough edges, make an educated guess about how to improve, observe what happens, and repeat. The majority of this book—parts two through four—is dedicated to a curated set of Agile practices that have been proven in practice. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

“How do you get from one team, where everybody fits around a conference table, to the Amazon-style or Google-sized organization?” asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. I’ve never found a problem where a team was too big to be one team, but it wasn’t obvious how to subdivide it.”.

Organization 81

Organization Technology Minimum Viable Product Part-Time VPE 81

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. So what exactly does career growth mean, and how can managers and leaders invest in it?

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Here’s how they apply to Agile: 1 Steven Smith has a good article on the Satir model at [link] that includes tips for helping team members through each stage. Everyone knows what’s expected of them and how to do their job. Help people understand how to do their job in the changed environment. If not, you can hire consultants.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98