Engineering Culture Engineering Management Organization 
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. It tends to snap back.
Honeycomb
MAY 15, 2024
It’s through a combination of technical artifacts, organizational practices and policies, and pure gumption that they manage to maintain themselves through time. However, there are some organizations that seem to have an easier time of it than others. Some parts of the organization may understand them as a blessing and others a curse.
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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.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 3, 2023
I created a visualization of the major types of engineering work I saw our teams complete in a quarter: It’s easy to quibble with the specific labels and the categories I’ve stuck them under, and in another organization these might be the wrong set or the wrong categories. Interested in reading more about engineering management?
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.
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
Gitprime
MAY 30, 2019
Keeping all these people, who are working in different buildings and time zones and countries, connected to each other and the organization is one of the great obstacles of leading remote and distributed teams. Teams are focused around overlapping time zones, even though the organization as a whole draws from a worldwide talent pool.
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