Development Engineering Culture Engineering Management 
James Shore
JANUARY 10, 2025
Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? My favorite discussion of the topic is Robert Austins, who wrote Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. They tend to be passionate, senior developers. This is a big cultural shift!
James Shore
APRIL 27, 2024
It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Culture doesn’t change easily. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.
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James Shore
AUGUST 19, 2024
PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Now it also covers the advanced titles—Staff Engineer for the engineer track and three Engineering Manager titles for the management track. Here’s the latest version of the ladder.
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. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2022
Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s
Honeycomb
MAY 15, 2024
Collecting this information up front is crucial because it will inform the development of a twinned strategy involving both passive and active tactics. To counter this, one might consider adopting the model of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum or other techniques of rotating leaders like sortition.
Netlify
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
user community who sees all the great work we do promoting the Jamstack and developer tooling. When we talk with engineering candidates, it’s pretty easy to explain what our frontend and Node.js developers do, because it’s the things you interact with every day. Netlify gets a lot of awareness from its active (and much beloved!)
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