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. How do I measure productivity? This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. Not possible.

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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. I’m also no longer primarily a line manager myself.

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. How to Be Agile. Second Edition cover. Your feedback is appreciated! It’s action that matters.

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Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. Scaling startups are often concerned with the first inflection point of their team size.

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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.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

For over a decade, two similar concepts — DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) — have been coexisting in the world of software development. This article explains how DevOps and SRE facilitate building reliable software, where they overlap, how they differ from each other, and when they can efficiently work side by side.

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