Netlify

JANUARY 20, 2021

Once an individual contributor achieves the senior level and is a strong performer, they can choose to try out the management track or remain on the technical path. From this point on individuals will need to focus on their leadership skills, be it technical or in management, alongside the core responsibilities of the role.

Engineering 52

Engineering Part-Time VPE Development CTO Coach 52

Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies. Why management matters.

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.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong. We started hiring remote folks, and we wanted to reduce that abstraction,” he says. Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. In light of that, I appreciate how much Honeycomb leadership worked with us to support flexible work schedules, changing financial burdens, and reduced workloads. So many wins in 2020.

Part-Time VPE 57

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 57

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. In light of that, I appreciate how much Honeycomb leadership worked with us to support flexible work schedules, changing financial burdens, and reduced workloads. So many wins in 2020.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

James Shore

MAY 5, 2024

In my new role as VP of Engineering , there was one question I was dreading more than any other: “How are you measuring productivity?” I need to be accountable for engineering productivity. I was to present mine to the full Leadership team at the end of April. Substitute leadership.” I can’t fault the question.

Metrics 109

Metrics CTO Coach Part-Time VPE Engineering 109

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Leaders and managers both require skills that can be taught, and developing those employees from within the company can be the most timely and economically efficient way to do so. Setting expectations for leadership growth.

Engineering 58

Engineering Leadership Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 58

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Lara Hogan discuss what it means to be a resilient manager. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. Episode 33. ??Are Are you a resilient manager?

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

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.” A successful startup engineering team has to say no to tantalizing opportunities constantly.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Performance and morale decline. Feelings of chaos decrease, morale improves, and performance climbs. Performance has stabilized at a higher level than before the change, and continues to increase gradually as people experiment with further small changes. If not, you can hire consultants. Some days are good; some are bad.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

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 VP liked what I had to say. They may try to recruit you.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

With an eye on the long-term health of our teams, our engineers, and our companies, that latter responsibility is at least as critical as the products we deliver. Our panelists offered their insights into how to mark the continuous journey of a software engineer between the big promotions. How can I build that impact? Stanley asks. “By

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

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. Transcript. What a guy.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75

Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Shoup himself has worked as an engineering leader with several companies of various sizes during periods of intense scaling over the last three decades. If you’re not able to talk to your business partners and explain, ‘Here’s why the system isn’t performing well.

Organization 81

Organization Technology Minimum Viable Product Part-Time VPE 81