James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort. Now, rather than assigning work to individual engineers, we assign it to teams. The software didnt meet the FBIs needs. How does your company manage projects? This is a big cultural shift!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

.” Mack previously worked at Checkr , where he managed and built the solution consulting team. Ruppel was a senior software engineer at Zendesk before joining Checkr, where he worked with Mack as an engineering manager. “Middesk means something different to each decision-maker,” Mack said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

.” Mack previously worked at Checkr , where he managed and built the solution consulting team. Ruppel was a senior software engineer at Zendesk before joining Checkr, where he worked with Mack as an engineering manager. “Middesk means something different to each decision-maker,” Mack said.

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CircleCI

MAY 23, 2019

My team at CircleCI is made up of seven engineers, a product manager, a designer, and an engineering manager, and we are distributed all across the world: in the US from West Coast to East Coast, then to Serbia, Thailand, and finally Japan. Record meetings by default and keep notes.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Director of Product Management, Cloudera. Director of Product Management, Cloudera. She also pioneered Deterministic GC which was productized as JRockit Real Time at BEA Systems (bef. He was also the chief architect of the Gazzang zNcrypt product and is author of two patents for data security. Eddie Garcia.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

My managers tell me that they’re seeing shifts in behavior, with people volunteering to lead meetings and take on work they didn’t before. Now it also covers the advanced titles—Staff Engineer for the engineer track and three Engineering Manager titles for the management track.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Director of Product Management, Cloudera. Director of Product Management, Cloudera. She also pioneered Deterministic GC which was productized as JRockit Real Time at BEA Systems (bef. He was also the chief architect of the Gazzang zNcrypt product and is author of two patents for data security. Eddie Garcia.

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LeanEssays

AUGUST 19, 2011

In addition, there was a deadline to meet and it would be career-threatening to be late. With these high level goals and constraints, a small team of us proceeded to design, develop, install, and start up a sophisticated control system, with guidance from senior engineers who had been doing this kind of work for decades.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It’s also often best if you approach your meeting as a conversation, rather than a presentation with slides, but your allies will know the best approach for your specific situation. Ensure each team includes a product manager or has a product manager they can work with. That meeting took place the following week.

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Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

Utilize managers to make their teams as productive as possible. In a healthy, generative organization, an engineering manager’s job is to remove road blocks from their engineers and team members. The job is to help to make as productive as possible the existing people in the team,” he says.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It’s also often best if you approach your meeting as a conversation, rather than a presentation with slides, but your allies will know the best approach for your specific situation. I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams.

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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 few title changes along the way were useful backward-looking markers of progress, but they didn’t often denote major changes in scope beyond (usually) new meetings to attend.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). The culture gap between sales and development/product teams (21:46). Where does product management fit between sales and development?

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Sailpoint

MAY 21, 2019

Performance engineering does not have veto power and cannot override design decisions made by the core engineering groups; this is important because the Software engineers maintain ownership of their design choices. Engineering managers and lead engineers initiate performance evaluations for new features via a request.

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Run concurrently with DeveloperWeek 2019 , DevExec World is a conference organized specifically for tech executives, engineering managers, and lead developers. Just some of these topics include emerging trends, product management, career advancement, diversity and culture, and team skill development.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). The culture gap between sales and development/product teams (21:46). Where does product management fit between sales and development?

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Capgemini

JUNE 14, 2023

Energy efficiency and saving operational costs: Operators have to meet stringent energy efficiency goals by 2030. In her current role, she is responsible for global Strategic Partnership Alliances and Technical Product Marketing for Software Frameworks & Solutions portfolio at Capgemini.

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Algolia

APRIL 1, 2019

Alignment Meetings. This is project management. Role of the Engineering and Product Managers. At Algolia, each team has one product manager and one engineering manager. As soon as you have overlaps you are losing time and potentially delaying the product. Get your hands dirty.

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scruminc

JANUARY 26, 2022

Overall, John Deere depends on a complex network of thousands of suppliers from around the globe to build industry-leading John Deere products. . Jay Strief, the Group Engineering Manager of Supply Chain Solutions, connects this success in part to managing through supply chain issues and puts it in personal terms. “The

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

Katie: In doing that, you role model to other leaders in the organization and people that have the sort of manager job description, that’s the behavior you want to see. When it gets hard personally, I like to think about “Well, what would I want to see in an engineering manager?” Senior Engineer 1.

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Trigent

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Developing a successful software product is highly challenging in today’s competitive market. Meeting customer expectations and delivering a reliable solution in the market is the biggest challenge for every organization. How to select the right development partner?

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

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. We now have a 1:2 ratio of product managers to designers, which is super unusual. Congrats to Observe Inc.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

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. We now have a 1:2 ratio of product managers to designers, which is super unusual. Congrats to Observe Inc.

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LaunchDarkly

JULY 17, 2020

On June 18, Ben Wilson, Engineering Manager at InVision, spoke at LaunchDarkly’s Test in Production Twitch Stream. Ben explained the process of how, when, and why a virtual squad may be your best bet to speed up decision-making and time-to-release across your engineering, product, and design organizations.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Will’s book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Marcus: Will, you are a manager now. You have been an engineer, you’ve got a marvelous book out called An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. When you were little, did you want to be a manager? November 4-7, 2019.

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