Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong. The post Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena appeared first on GitPrime.

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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.

Data Engineering 112

Data Engineering Engineering Data Technical Review 112

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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Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 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. Just like real Agile and real Scrum is too extreme for most companies.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141