Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

And in a moment where it was as hard as ever to hire and retain talented software engineers, our software systems also continued to grow more and more complicated. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. Where do you put the contracts in place?

Part-Time VPE 58

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Fractional VPE 58

Battery Ventures

APRIL 8, 2019

I’ve seen a lot of great CEOs and entrepreneurs who don’t know how to go about hiring a recruiter. It can be daunting to trust a challenging and high-stakes process to an outside consultant. A former boss of mine was a recruiter who only did VP of engineering and CTO searches.

Part-Time VPE 40

Part-Time VPE Recruiting Fractional VPE Fractional CTO 40

Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

This includes a diverse set of topics, like how to scale development, how to create great company culture, how to create growing/innovation mindset, how to create an experimental culture, agile/lean practices etc. To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up.

Conference 59

Conference Software Review Technical Review Systems Review 59

Tenable

MAY 3, 2024

“While the adoption of artificial intelligence to gain access to valuable corporate assets is a concern on the horizon, a failure to patch basic vulnerabilities has threat actors not needing to advance their approach,” Chris Novak, Verizon’s Senior Director of Cybersecurity Consulting said in a statement this week.

Programming 78

Programming Infrastructure Conference Fractional VPE 78

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

I don’t know how to do any of that,” says Bob. How to get appreciation. Lately, I’ve been getting questions from data engineers on how to get into their company’s limelight. This isn’t about gamesmanship or who’s better; it’s showing if they know what happens when you put something in production and how to maintain code.

Data Engineering 112

Data Engineering Engineering Data Technical Review 112

Agile Engine

MAY 12, 2025

They flattened their engineering structure by entrusting some of the “pure” management responsibilities to technical leads. All the company’s engineers now ultimately report to the VP of Engineering for people management. This trend has direct implications for Software Engineering Managers.

Engineering Management 52

Engineering Management Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. The term DevOps (short for development and operations) was coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois, Belgian IT consultant and Agile practitioner.

DevOps 96

DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

Apiumhub

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Giving and / or receiving feedback is easy, but knowing how to do it is not so easy. by Ramon Balaguer – Legacy software developer at Voxel Group , Vicenç García – VP of Engineering at Voxel Group. How to manage 20 years of legacy? Developing with legacy is cool!

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Development Technical Review 52

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Here’s how they apply to Agile: 1 Steven Smith has a good article on the Satir model at [link] that includes tips for helping team members through each stage. Everyone knows what’s expected of them and how to do their job. Help people understand how to do their job in the changed environment. If not, you can hire consultants.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

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.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We How do you run a meeting effectively?

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Organization Part-Time VPE 40

taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Ahhhh…the holy grail of IT expenditure quantification: how to get more out of your employees without increasing staff or compensation. Public cloud is not cheaper! There, I said it! Productivity.

Cloud 40

Cloud Part-Time VPE Data Center Technical Review 40

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. turn right] How are you measuring productivity? We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. To help change the engineering culture, weve defined a lot of skills around communication and teamwork.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

This week on the Programming Leadership podcast, Marcus interviews Eric Muntz, the Senior Vice President of Engineering at MailChimp. One of the first lessons Eric learned in management was how to listen well. It was a very small little consulting practice. Consulting is great.” Eric: I joined as an engineer.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75