James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. They tend to be passionate, senior developers.

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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. At Honeycomb and elsewhere, good engineering managers are often some of the most essential glue holding software teams together and helping employees feel a sense of belonging and purpose at work.

Engineering 145

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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.” Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams.

Part-Time VPE 45

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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. Scaling startups are often concerned with the first inflection point of their team size.

Part-Time VPE 58

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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

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. You’ve decided that Agile will make your teams more successful. Second Edition cover.

Agile 94

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.

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