Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

Honeycomb

MARCH 6, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within.

Engineering 75

Engineering Part-Time VPE Policies Performance 75

Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within.

Engineering 52

Engineering Part-Time VPE Policies Performance 52

GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

.” The CEO who said that to me was a successful entrepreneur who had grown his startup into a 25-person marketing company serving hundreds of brands. By most measures, his 350-person SAAS (Software as a Service) company was a success. That might include a reorganization, hiring to fill gaps, or both.

Organization 59

Organization Technical Review Part-Time VPE Weak Development Team 59

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. A company called Fresh Books. And I think every company is trying to do that too.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

2 If you have many teams, the overall time frame will be longer. I see many more companies with mediocre Agile teams than great Agile teams. People burn out on the mismatch between Agile ideas and company values. If your company is new to Agile ideas, regardless of whether they already use the name, use kaikaku.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

And that’s the stage where many of us don’t know what to do to usher in the next era of our company. asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Shoup himself has worked as an engineering leader with several companies of various sizes during periods of intense scaling over the last three decades.

Organization 81

Organization Technology Minimum Viable Product Part-Time VPE 81

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

You’ve figured out which investments your company needs to make. If not, you can hire consultants. If you’re not prepared to get expert help, limit your Agile changes to a few teams at a time. One thing the mediocre teams have in common is that their companies didn’t go all in. Invest in Change. Understanding Change.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

With an eye on the long-term health of our teams, our engineers, and our companies, that latter responsibility is at least as critical as the products we deliver. People can certainly move between engineering and management, between engineering and product, between different areas of engineering, and so on.

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

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).

Coaching 45

Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 45

taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Let’s go through a few reasons that often are the reasons companies make their initial, or eventual, move to the public cloud. More advanced solutions exist that few companies are prepared to implement.

Cloud 40

Cloud Part-Time VPE Data Center Technical Review 40

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” My priority number one had been to “run engineering well.” Early in my career, I had the experience of working for a company where everything felt broken but it wasn’t clear why.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98