Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers. This is good.

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Agile Engine

MAY 12, 2025

The evolution of the engineering manager: leading teams in a changing industry The software development industry is undergoing a significant transformation, marked by shifts in organizational structures, evolving expectations for leadership, and the emergence of powerful artificial intelligence tools. Their reasons?

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain. After all, Wijegunawardena has discovered that engineers learn best not by one-on-one consultation with a mentor, but by doing the work with their mentors and senior peers.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

With that, the argument that they should put a people-managers on their payroll, where it sounds like their only job is for them to tell other people what to do, feels like a real waste.”. At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. This works even better if a manager they trust speaks informally on your behalf. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. the chaos by using a technique I learned from Diana Larsen: Support, Information, and Structure (SIS). Information. If not, you can hire consultants. Second Edition cover. Your feedback is appreciated!

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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.

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