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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

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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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

I assumed being a VP would require the same amount of slack as my past engineering manager and director roles, but in practice I’ve found that it really helps to leave even more slack time. I not only need to show up to conversations with emotional energy; I need to be able to do strategic thinking and provide directional clarity.