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

MAY 15, 2024

These include running regular training and enablement sessions like Lunch & Learns, publishing a newsletter, advising on or collaborating on custom instrumentation libraries, and supporting the general observability toolset. That light touch frees them to sprinkle in more targeted interventions.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

We have to train our teams to set their calendars to automatically decline meetings outside of your working times so that people see it happen the instant they try to set up the meeting,” he says. And the same goes for distributed managers, as well—particularly when an organization is starting to go remote.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

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. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort. This is a big cultural shift! We need to bring them on board, too.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. In Q1 we promoted Emily Nakashima to VP of Engineering , and we hired two more engineering managers in Q4.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. In Q1 we promoted Emily Nakashima to VP of Engineering , and we hired two more engineering managers in Q4.

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