TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A December 2021 survey by CSO found that 44% of security leaders at large companies expected their budgets to increase in the upcoming 12 months. They came from Juniper Networks, where Apurva Mehta was the CTO and chief architect of the mobility business unit and Kumar Mehta was the VP of engineering.

Security 193

Security Network WAN Fractional VPE 193

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 term DevOps (short for development and operations) was coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois, Belgian IT consultant and Agile practitioner.

DevOps 96

DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Give each team responsibility for their budget, plans, and results. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. Give each team responsibility for their budget, plans, and results. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Furthermore, should a regional deployment strategy not work out for the business, the technical budget is left holding the proverbial bag. Public cloud is not cheaper! There, I said it! Data Restrictions.

Cloud 40

Cloud Part-Time VPE Data Center Technical Review 40

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. This way, you dont have to compete for budget, and you dont have to justify the cost of the rewrite. If you execute the plan perfectly, coming in on time, on budget, and as specified, youre going to be successful.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141