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. To help out, were supporting the career ladder changes with an XP coaching team.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

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

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

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.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

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

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). She wasn’t born a manager, though—like many engineering leaders, she started out doing multiple front-end development jobs.

Coaching 45

Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 45

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.

Conference 59

Conference Software Review Technical Review Systems Review 59

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94