Book Culture Fractional VPE 
James Shore
JANUARY 10, 2025
This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. The founders were immersed in XP, and XP is where we want to return, but there was a period of time where the company grew quickly and lost that XP culture. We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset.
Apiumhub
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
He’s authored no less than seven books about software development and has been a columnist for a number of software publications. John is a consultant and helps companies with Devops, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. He write books, gives presentations and talks. DevOps influencers. Martin Fowler. John Arundel. Jez Humble.
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Honeycomb
AUGUST 19, 2022
Riding the pendulum from manager back to IC is common, and there are even high-quality books , websites , and conferences about navigating the upper echelons of the IC ladder. My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now.
James Shore
OCTOBER 15, 2020
It’s easy because, in most cases, they can start with one of the many off-the-shelf Agile methods, like the one in this book. So, although it’s tempting to customize your Agile method from the beginning, it’s best to start out with a by-the-book approach. Parts II-IV of this book describe the practices for each zone.
Altexsoft
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. The hierarchy of service reliability needs, according to Google’s SRE book. Source: Site Reliability Engineering. What is DevOps?
James Shore
DECEMBER 4, 2020
If you’re using this book as the basis for your change, provide copies, and tell people which parts you’re using. If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. The VP liked what I had to say. Counterintuively. probably not.
Gitprime
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Before transitioning into coaching and consulting, he was the VP of Firefox for Mozilla through a period of intense turmoil (during which he helped build and launch the first Firefox offerings on Android and iPhone). Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio.
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