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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.
James Shore
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Continuous improvement is an integral part of being Agile, so shouldn’t you kaizen your way to Agile in the first place? If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The VP liked what I had to say.
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Agile Engine
MAY 12, 2025
They flattened their engineering structure by entrusting some of the “pure” management responsibilities to technical leads. All the company’s engineers now ultimately report to the VP of Engineering for people management. Their reasons?
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.
Tenable
MAY 3, 2024
1 - Verizon DBIR: Hackers feasting on unpatched vulnerabilities This year’s edition of Verizon’s “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) is out, and a key finding is that attackers tripled down on exploiting vulnerabilities to gain an initial foothold in victims’ networks. 1, 2022 to Oct. s National Cyber Security Centre.
James Shore
DECEMBER 4, 2020
If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. Continuous improvement is an integral part of Agile, so shouldn’t you kaizen your way to Agile in the first place? The VP liked what I had to say. Counterintuively.
James Shore
JANUARY 10, 2025
This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. And, as a fully remote company, we have a lot of flexibility in where we hire. The founders were immersed in XP, and XP is where we want to return, but there was a period of time where the company grew quickly and lost that XP culture.
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