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.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team. The VP liked what I had to say. Counterintuively.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help. If not, you can hire consultants. The VP liked what I had to say. Counterintuively. probably not.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort. This is the document that describes what you need to do in order to be promoted. Before I joined, work was assigned to individual engineers.

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