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Honeycomb
JULY 12, 2023
This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.
James Shore
JANUARY 10, 2025
This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. And, as a fully remote company, we have a lot of flexibility in where we hire. 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.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 10, 2022
As a company matures, though, the CEO’s role typically shrinks more and more, until they only have three jobs left: Set the culture for the company. Hire the right people to build the company. In the earliest days when there’s just two or three of you building a company, everybody does everything.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 19, 2022
There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.
Apiumhub
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Even Though you may find thousands of influencers on the internet, it is hard to know who is truly worth following. He’s authored no less than seven books about software development and has been a columnist for a number of software publications. There you will find useful DevOps information on a daily basis. Bridget Kromhout .
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.
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. Continuous improvement is an integral part of Agile, so shouldn’t you kaizen your way to Agile in the first place? The VP liked what I had to say. Counterintuively.
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