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).” When it was originally posted, back in 2018, it was timely. I’m also no longer primarily a line manager myself.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

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. And, as a fully remote company, we have a lot of flexibility in where we hire.

Engineering 141

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

One more year we support Craft Conference as we believe this is a very interesting event. You can read more about our collaboration and past edition of the conference here. . About Craft Conference. Craft Conference returns in person for the first time since 2019! Check out the speakers! Topics to be discussed.

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Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

“How do you get from one team, where everybody fits around a conference table, to the Amazon-style or Google-sized organization?” asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Utilize managers to make their teams as productive as possible. Shoup stresses that managers aren’t there to tell their teams what to do.

Organization 81

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

Part-Time VPE 52

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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).

Coaching 45

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