James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. This lighter-weight approach allows us to have a lot more skills, and we were hoping it would remove the bias the previous system had toward self-promotion and longevity. I tend to agree. It’s still a burden.

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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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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

Complex distributed systems are perpetually in a state far from equilibrium, operating in what Richard Cook has called a “degraded mode.” It’s through a combination of technical artifacts, organizational practices and policies, and pure gumption that they manage to maintain themselves through time. Software is in a crisis.

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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. A knack for systems thinking, paired with equal interest in both human & technological systems.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

And despite all this, many engineering leaders worry their teams may actually be under-investing in tech debt, in ways that could negatively impact the business over the long term. With all of these conflicting opinions, it seems like there might be wires crossed in the system somewhere. Read my article on Becoming a VP of Engineering.

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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. Womersley has seen many strong relationships emerge from the buddy system.

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