Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

If you’ve ever wondered about what it could look like to go from being an engineer to the senior executive level of your company, you won’t want to miss this episode. This week on the Programming Leadership podcast, Marcus interviews Eric Muntz, the Senior Vice President of Engineering at MailChimp. What a guy. What did you do?

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Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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. If not, you can hire consultants. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team.

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Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team.

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Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103