Coaching Engineering Management SCRUM 
James Shore
JANUARY 10, 2025
This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. It was September 2023, my CEO was asking me a question, and my position as Vice President of Engineering was less than three months old. Just like real Agile and real Scrum is too extreme for most companies.
James Shore
OCTOBER 15, 2020
1 To succeed with Agile, follow these steps: 1 The method in this book is primarily based on Extreme Programming, but it also draws inspiration from Scrum, Kanban, Lean Software Development, the DevOps movement, and Lean Startup. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Focusing practices.
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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.”
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). I’m a 30-plus-year veteran, in Silicon Valley, of enterprise software product management. And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Show Notes.
Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts
MARCH 4, 2020
Everybody who’s first encountering the world of agility, they’re going to encounter it almost always nowadays through some form of either Scrum or SAFe. Is there an approach that you would advocate for, for somebody to start thinking about, “I wonder if scrum is working for me?” GeePaw: Yeah, sure.
Abhishek Tiwari
JULY 20, 2019
As a bare minimum, I can think of an engineering organisation of 6 Spotify like squads with each team consisting of 8-10 people including engineers (frontend/backend), BA, PO, and an agile coach. That's an overall engineering organisation of 55+ people including engineering leaders, chapter leads, etc.
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). I’m a 30-plus-year veteran, in Silicon Valley, of enterprise software product management. And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Show Notes.
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