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?

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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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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.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

If we were to take it one step further, where test automation is not only a tool to validate what we have made, but rather a way to write self-testing code , we find practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). As Dave Farley and Arjan Molenaar wrote: “TDD is not about writing unit tests”.

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

In the user acceptance phase of software testing, developers provide part or all of the application to end-users or their representatives to model real-world interactions and functionality. Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption.

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CircleCI

APRIL 12, 2022

Managing that interaction with the cloud is part of what cloud engineering is all about. You can bring the practices of application delivery to infrastructure as code with the maturity of cloud engineering. Getting started with cloud engineering using Pulumi and CircleCI. You can find the source code at [link].

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Datavail

APRIL 6, 2022

Establishing an IT culture. Modernizing legacy applications is the perfect opportunity to reform your broader IT and engineering culture as well. Consider establishing internal coding standards that will make testing and long-term maintenance easier. Conclusion.

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