James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

Enough that I don’t do any coding myself, and the managers that report to me don’t have time to do much either.) What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway. It tends to snap back. This makes room for a lot more skills.

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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.

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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

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. I had enough experience at early-stage startups to know that, if the company is successful, you’ll probably do a whole host of things as the company moves through different phases.

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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

To counter this, one might consider adopting the model of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum or other techniques of rotating leaders like sortition. Conclusion A Center of Production Excellence can be a powerful means for an organization to initiate transformations which foster resilience as it matures and its environment changes.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

Interested in reading more about engineering management? Read my article on Becoming a VP of Engineering. Sometimes, using a label that speaks directly to the business value of a type of work can do wonders to help both sides find a way to move forward. The post Anything But Tech Debt appeared first on Honeycomb.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? Being able to have honest 1:1s with my manager and seeing results come from it. We have dedicated Slack channels for each team, and notification channels for PRs and issues.

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