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James Shore
JANUARY 10, 2025
It was September 2023, my CEO was asking me a question, and my position as Vice President of Engineering was less than three months old. Software engineering productivity cant be measured. This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. How are you measuring productivity?
James Shore
APRIL 27, 2024
I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say how many engineers we have, so let’s just say “lots,” but not “tons.”
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Honeycomb
JULY 12, 2023
This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Not the plan I didn’t join Honeycomb with the goal of becoming an engineering executive.
James Shore
AUGUST 19, 2024
Back in April , I posted the new career ladder I was planning to introduce at OpenSesame, which I’ve joined as VP of Engineering. PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. The other open question is whether engineers feel this system is better.
Gitprime
MAY 30, 2019
Leaders of distributed engineering teams shouldn’t have to work up solutions to these problems from scratch. So we held a panel discussion with three of today’s top engineering leaders to discuss approaches and lessons learned in building, growing, and maintaining remote and distributed teams.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2022
The overall theme is high-performing engineering teams are generally the ones that humanize the process. Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s It’s hard to have one piece of practical advice because a team of engineers is a living, breathing entity.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 3, 2023
Tech debt is usually one of the most fraught topics on engineering teams. Engineers often feel they aren’t allowed enough time to address tech debt. Product partners wonder why engineers spend so much time working on it—or at least talking about it. How will you make sure engineers adopt the tool successfully?
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