Engineering Culture Engineering Management Programming 
James Shore
JANUARY 10, 2025
We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. You see, Extreme Programming is too. We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. This is a matter of changing organizational culture, and organizational culture isnt easy to change. 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.
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 was able to learn from great backend, infrastructure, platform, and ops engineers and get a sense for both how they thought and what problems were important to them.
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.
Gitprime
MAY 30, 2019
And the same goes for distributed managers, as well—particularly when an organization is starting to go remote. We have an engineering manager in Colorado, who was a remote manager before, who helped us understand remote strategies. Finding someone with good experience was super helpful for us,” Muntz says. “We
LaunchDarkly
JUNE 12, 2020
Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers.
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