James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To move to new zones—for example, if a team is fluent in the Focusing zone, and wants to add Delivering or Optimizing fluency— kaikaku is still the best approach. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help. If not, you can hire consultants. The VP liked what I had to say. Reaching the Economic Buyer.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.

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Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. So what exactly does career growth mean, and how can managers and leaders invest in it?

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Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

Taking on an engineering leadership role can be disorienting for fresh recruits from the engineering ranks and seasoned veterans alike. Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering).

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. If youre not a senior manager, these are techniques you could potentially take to your managers. You can share these ideas as an examples of what to do to support your Agile teams. It cant be done. turn left] Im not.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. I have a great partnership with our recruiting teams.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The other thing I noticed actually about engineers, and engineering management as a discipline is engineers and engineering managers think that somehow they’re unique in these management responsibilities. But these skills are not unique to management. Folks, I’m so sorry.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

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