Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights. This is good.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If you have one team that’s eager to try Agile with your organization’s full support, it doesn’t have to be a big deal. If you’re trying to change 50 teams in an organization that’s unfamiliar with Agile ideas. Performance and morale decline. Feelings of chaos decrease, morale improves, and performance climbs.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In addition, Agile practices often perform double- and triple-duty, solving multiple software development problems simultaneously and supporting each other in clever and surprising ways. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The formality of your proposal will depend on your organization.

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taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. While this is doable for some larger organizations, when multiplied across multiple regions and as many time zones, the daunting task becomes untenable. And while SLAs exist, they are rarely published within IT organizations.

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