James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. They tend to be passionate, senior developers.

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Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. Community conversations over the past five years have emphasized a whole new set of traits and responsibilities in engineering managers. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights. This is good.

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Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams. Eric is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at MailChimp, which is a product you should be using if you’re not, and just one of my new favorite people, we met recently.

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Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75

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. Like it’s exciting to have this new opportunity, new sets of skills to develop, but also, it’s a lot of responsibility, and people get no training. Transcript.

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CTO Coach Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 52