Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Wijegunawardena recalls that ten or more years ago, when Box was a growing company, it could not spring for the high-end video chat systems for remote engineers, so they used Google Hangouts instead. “We

Part-Time VPE 45

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. As I said, we have a ratio of 1 to 11 XP coaches to engineers, and I would like it to be closer to 1 to 6. Our initial coaching hires are jump-starting that path, and were training people internally to get the rest of the way.

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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

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. “We

Engineering 75

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

One step he made was going through the employees’ training and asking them how he could help them do their jobs better. For a short period of time, worked for the government doing web development and then actually started a consulting business in Atlanta where my main client was the Federal Government in Washington D.C. Marcus: I do.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

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. I’ve never learned, been formally trained in these skills. And that was the idea that oftentimes we take these roles and we get no training. Lara: Yeah.

CTO Coach 52

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