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. To help protect our engineering managers and support them in some of the challenges of this changing role, I propose the following contract. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights.

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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.”. It also puts much attention to tracking results, making measurable performance improvements, and automating operations tasks. What is DevOps?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

I think data scientists are thinking that their simple data pipeline is what data engineering is. In the past, a data engineer performed the really difficult data engineering behind the scenes and the data scientists didn’t have to deal with it. They could have used a general-purpose compute engine and been better off.

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Craft Conference will cover: Language agnostic methods, best practices (tdd, bdd, ddd, ci, cd, security, performance, service oriented architecture etc.) that can be successfully leveraged by individual engineers. To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up. Check out the speakers!

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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. 3X better returns on your engineering spend. Their reasons?

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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.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Performance and morale decline. Feelings of chaos decrease, morale improves, and performance climbs. Performance has stabilized at a higher level than before the change, and continues to increase gradually as people experiment with further small changes. If not, you can hire consultants. Some days are good; some are bad.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In addition, Agile practices often perform double- and triple-duty, solving multiple software development problems simultaneously and supporting each other in clever and surprising ways. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. The VP liked what I had to say.

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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. Engineering often has several directors who own different pieces of it, such as platform, ops, front end, or science and analytics. What are we doing as a business?

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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.

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taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Testing a market, be it domestic or international, is best done where the test can be performed without a significant time or effort commitment. Public cloud is not cheaper! There, I said it! Data Restrictions. Conclusion.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

My favorite discussion of the topic is Robert Austins, who wrote Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. Weve also been able to use the new career ladder as a touchstone for people who are having performance problems.

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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. And I remember feeling that way, at every stage of management, you know not just as a new line manager, but when I became a manager of managers, and then when I became a VPE.

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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. It was a very small little consulting practice. The interesting thing about that is that I decided to stop focusing on consulting and to start trying to build products.

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