CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

According to a survey conducted by FTI Consulting on behalf of UST, a digital transformation consultancy, 99% of senior IT decision makers say their companies are deploying AI, with more than half using and integrating it throughout their organizations, and 93% say that AI will be essential to success in the next five years.

Part-Time VPE 205

Part-Time VPE Weak Development Team Fractional VPE Fractional CTO 205

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. I said, If we had the best product engineering organization in the world, what would it look like? Imagine were the best product engineering org in the world. We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

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. Develop a means of cultural acknowledgment. Of course, accomplishments like delivering a huge project are prime times to do that.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

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. Where do you put the contracts in place? Davis is a self-described architect. Where do you put the APIs?

Part-Time VPE 58

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Fractional VPE 58

Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. The term DevOps (short for development and operations) was coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois, Belgian IT consultant and Agile practitioner.

DevOps 96

DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Before transitioning into coaching and consulting, he was the VP of Firefox for Mozilla through a period of intense turmoil (during which he helped build and launch the first Firefox offerings on Android and iPhone). VP: The VP is typically the highest point on the tree for gathering everyone in a function.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Organization Part-Time VPE 40