James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort. Now, rather than assigning work to individual engineers, we assign it to teams. The most popular book on this subject is called "Team Topologies." We need to bring them on board, too.

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LeanEssays

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Each market had a Product Manager, a traditional role found in most product companies. The company was clear about the role of a Product Manager; after all, there are university courses and professional organizations for this role.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. Camille Fournier’s The Manager’s Path is one good exception to this. The post On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP appeared first on Honeycomb.

Part-Time VPE 98

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Run concurrently with DeveloperWeek 2019 , DevExec World is a conference organized specifically for tech executives, engineering managers, and lead developers. Just some of these topics include emerging trends, product management, career advancement, diversity and culture, and team skill development.

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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. Ensure each team includes a product manager or has a product manager they can work with. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team. See the “Make Time for Learning” section.).

Agile 94

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

Marcus: Yeah, I actually… just this morning, I was reading Amy Edmondson’s book The Fearless Organization which is about psychological safety. Katie: In doing that, you role model to other leaders in the organization and people that have the sort of manager job description, that’s the behavior you want to see.

Engineering 58

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). The culture gap between sales and development/product teams (21:46). Where does product management fit between sales and development?

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Algolia

APRIL 1, 2019

Role of the Engineering and Product Managers. At Algolia, each team has one product manager and one engineering manager. This also helps with managing time. By booking time in advance for all involved, we managed to have everyone working on key parts of the project and create momentum.

Software Review 49

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). The culture gap between sales and development/product teams (21:46). Where does product management fit between sales and development?

Weak Development Team 59

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Will’s book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Marcus: Will, you are a manager now. You have been an engineer, you’ve got a marvelous book out called An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. When you were little, did you want to be a manager?

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. In Q1 we promoted Emily Nakashima to VP of Engineering , and we hired two more engineering managers in Q4. We now have a 1:2 ratio of product managers to designers, which is super unusual. the o11y book”).

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. In Q1 we promoted Emily Nakashima to VP of Engineering , and we hired two more engineering managers in Q4. We now have a 1:2 ratio of product managers to designers, which is super unusual. the o11y book”).

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52