Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers. This is good.

Engineering 145

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

With that, the argument that they should put a people-managers on their payroll, where it sounds like their only job is for them to tell other people what to do, feels like a real waste.”. At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Organization Part-Time VPE 40

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.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

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. Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. If not, you can hire consultants. The VP liked what I had to say. We spoke two weeks later.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

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). Yet she’s worked with a lot of engineering leaders where that internal drive—and the resulting fulfillment—weren’t the case.

Coaching 45

Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 45

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort. The most popular book on this subject is called "Team Topologies." It cant be done.

Engineering 141

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Marcus: Lara is the best-selling author of her new book Resilient Management, which I have to say has just set Twitter on fire for me, at least [inaudible 00:00:42]. So on the tools front, there is the book Resilient Management. Why do you think it is so terrifying to become a manager? Lara, welcome to the show.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 52