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

Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Many leaders grapple with how to balance allowing team members to contribute to projects, alongside the mentorship and training of other team members who come alongside. Integrate mentorship into regular contributions.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

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. Of course, the career ladder isnt enough on its own.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. Where do you put the contracts in place?

Part-Time VPE 58

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Fractional VPE 58

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

At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies. 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).

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Organization Part-Time VPE 40

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94