Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. But these skills are not unique to management. Marcus: Why did you feel this was the right time for this book? It could come out in like workshops, for example.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 52

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

There is an inherent difference between leaders and managers that is often overlooked. While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. I am VP of Engineering over there. We’re currently 90 folks in the company overall, 35 in engineering. Episode 11.

Engineering 58

Engineering Leadership Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 58

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.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Performance and morale decline. Feelings of chaos decrease, morale improves, and performance climbs. Performance has stabilized at a higher level than before the change, and continues to increase gradually as people experiment with further small changes. If not, you can hire consultants. Some days are good; some are bad.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

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.” A successful startup engineering team has to say no to tantalizing opportunities constantly.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98

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?

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In addition, Agile practices often perform double- and triple-duty, solving multiple software development problems simultaneously and supporting each other in clever and surprising ways. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The VP liked what I had to say. Reaching the Economic Buyer.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Shoup himself has worked as an engineering leader with several companies of various sizes during periods of intense scaling over the last three decades. Shoup stresses that managers aren’t there to tell their teams what to do. Incorporate product managers into the team.

Organization 81

Organization Technology Minimum Viable Product Part-Time VPE 81