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.

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Develop a means of cultural acknowledgment.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. These cultural changes that have led us to shift our expectations for managers have traveled from the bottom up. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights.

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Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. Where do you put the contracts in place? Davis is a self-described architect. Where do you put the APIs?

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Without it, the mismatch between your teams’ Agile practices and your organization’s non-Agile culture will cause constant friction. Counterintuively.

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Craft Conference is an event where any type of engineers, team leaders, agile coaches, engineering managers, executives/founders, UX/product people could learn a lot. To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up. Team and organisational level topics, best practices (agile, devops etc.)

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