James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say how many engineers we have, so let’s just say “lots,” but not “tons.”

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Leading remote engineering teams comes with a suite of challenges. The remote engineers aren’t always able to contribute as easily.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 16, 2021

This unique mix of senior engineer plus agile manager doesn’t come easy or naturally for anyone. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 10, 2020

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

Back in April , I posted the new career ladder I was planning to introduce at OpenSesame, which I’ve joined as VP of Engineering. PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. The other open question is whether engineers feel this system is better.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Not the plan I didn’t join Honeycomb with the goal of becoming an engineering executive.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Before Loopin, Varma was a product lead at Venture Highway at Upgrad, Pareek was a product lead at Samsung and Dudi worked as an engineering manager at Freshworks. The startup, backed by Venture Highway and angel investors, was founded in April 2021 by college friends Anurag Varma, Parth Pareek and Mehul Dudi.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We with his wife, Melissa Nightingale.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 10, 2022

But if you let all the power drift over to the engineering managers, pretty soon it doesn’t look so great to be an engineer. Now you have people becoming managers for all the wrong reasons, or everyone saying they want to be a manager, or engineers tuning out and turning in their homework (or quitting).

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 20, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Talk with any engineering manager who regrets leaving coding and you’ll understand that management is not for everyone. Managers are used to autonomy.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The transition to becoming a manager of managers requires an entirely new set of skills: hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineering managers are fundamentally different jobs than hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers. What are the defining differences as you start to manage managers?

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Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

Taking on an engineering leadership role can be disorienting for fresh recruits from the engineering ranks and seasoned veterans alike. 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).

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Tandem

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Tandem’s custom software engineering team works collaboratively to create products for our clients. For today’s Tandem Roundtable, our engineering managers (Mercedes, Chris, and Kate) sat down to discuss how they create opportunities for career growth, cultivate an inclusive workplace culture, and support each other along the way.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

There is an inherent difference between leaders and managers that is often overlooked. While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. The “dark side” of management…is it real? Katie’s favorite resources on leadership & management. Episode 11. Transcript.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 8, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. In today’s engineering world, those two concepts are continents apart. “By How do I hire more black engineers?”. Of course, anyone is welcome to work here!

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Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. So what exactly does career growth mean, and how can managers and leaders invest in it?

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Honeycomb

APRIL 4, 2023

Almost everyone who reached out mentioned: They didn’t know career coaching was a thing The idea of timeboxing a role change experiment (like going from engineer to manager) for two years was bang-on Let’s dive deeper into these observations. Career coaches can help you get unstuck and recognize you need a change.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Stretch conference is a 2-day international conference that brings together community leaders and managers who are interested in sharing stories, hands-on solutions, and exploring new trends and ideas to become a better version of themselves. What are the topics of the talks?

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 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. Software engineering productivity cant be measured. This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. How are you measuring productivity?

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

They provide the opportunity to receive expert guidance on managing technical teams and learn about best practices for hiring (and retaining) talented developers, engineers, and designers. Just some of these topics include emerging trends, product management, career advancement, diversity and culture, and team skill development.

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Gitprime

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. That means on a day-to-day level, a career-path level, and a living-breathing-creature level for every one of your engineers and managers.

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Craft can help companies to understand how important it is to invest in the way they develop: not just into engineering but into the whole value generation process. 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.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. Focus team-level managers on managing their work system rather than individuals and tasks. See the “Change Team Management Style” section.). Ensure each team has a coach who can help them learn to be an effective, jelled team.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Highlights of his career include heading up engineering at New Relic as it grew from 3 developers to 330; growing Invision from 60 developers to 350 as its CTO; working on VisualAge Smalltalk at OTI (Object Technology International); and coordinating the open-source Eclipse developers at the Eclipse Organization. The N+1 Management Problem.

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James Shore

JANUARY 18, 2021

I often saw issues where the engineering manager (EM) and product manager (PM) didn’t work well together, and these teams tended to do quite poorly. The Single-Threaded Owner (STO) model resolves these problems by creating cross-functional teams, composed of engineering, product, and design, with a single leader.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 23, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. As an engineering manager, you’re concerned with your team delivering the best products they can, as efficiently as they can.

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Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

DECEMBER 22, 2019

First, I’m exited to tell you that I’ve joined Heroku/Salesforce as an Engineering Manager. I’ve been wanting to “get back in the game” of engineering management for a while, and am excited to put my consulting experience to work in new contexts. In 2020, I want these patterns to continue. I appreciate you.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Focusing practices. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Delivering practices. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Optimizing practices. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team. We spoke two weeks later. The VP liked what I had to say.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Highlights of his career include heading up engineering at New Relic as it grew from 3 developers to 330; growing Invision from 60 developers to 350 as its CTO; working on VisualAge Smalltalk at OTI (Object Technology International); and coordinating the open-source Eclipse developers at the Eclipse Organization. The N+1 Management Problem.

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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.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2018

In the context of engineering teams, high-performing teams usually show a bit of discontent and frustration which the traditional model of engagement (e.g. In the context of engineering teams, Demands refer to an individual, team, work, or organisation related challenges that require sustained cognitive and/or emotional effort.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Understand your systems with OpenTelemetry by Carolina Zhou Lin – Software Engineer at Voxel Group and Xavier Belloso – Senior Software Engineer en baVel – Voxel Group. Data Engineering: Building your BI infrastructure from scratch by Estefania Rabadan Martinez – Data Engineer Lead at Hotjar.

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Tandem

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For today’s Tandem Roundtable, our design managers (Julia and Chris) sat down to discuss how they create opportunities for career growth, cultivate a healthy design culture, and support each other along the way. Interested in our engineering managers’ perspectives? What is Tandem’s approach to management?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 8, 2019

Progressed, eventually, to leading test teams, and managing testers, and then moving more into agile roles and team coaching. That sort of led me into a wider management role. So these days I’m an engineering manager, managing developers, helping teams deliver, meet their goals.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I do a lot of coaching with senior leaders and managers to help them keep their cool. And as engineers, we love our tools. GitPrime has sponsored the show, not just because they’re fantastic people, but because they really believe that leadership and engineering is about people. We all get triggered.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

GeePaw, I’ve been interviewing engineering managers for one of my clients, helping them hire and we always have a beginning talk about salary. Now, these engineering managers are special in my opinion because they always, always used to be engineers, and they’re not that far from it.

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