Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. No Q4 code freezes for us. no oversharing or prying). So many wins in 2020.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

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

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. I am VP of Engineering over there.

Engineering 58

Engineering Leadership Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 58

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane. What is Workplace Productivity?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

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

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams. Engineers having seen that, then it turned into an Engineering 1 job, helping fix bugs and work on their software. We were pretty flat at the time. Transcript.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75

Stackery

MAY 9, 2019

Impostors syndrome: that perennial juggling act between vocational ambition and that sneaking suspicion that you’ll arrive at work on a Wednesday only to find your desk sold for parts, the room darkened, and a semicircle of coworkers with flashlights under their chins, serving you with a notarized document that reads “the jig is up”.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Part-Time VPE Serverless 40