James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 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. You’ve decided that Agile will make your teams more successful. Second Edition cover.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

Back in April , I posted the new career ladder I was planning to introduce at OpenSesame, which I’ve joined as VP of Engineering. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far. PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame.

Software Engineering 63

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Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

When startups are first setting out, the initial team is small and usually solving relatively discrete (albeit central) problems. But at scale, the quantity and size of the problems grow larger than a single manageable team can handle. asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork.

Organization 81

Organization Technology Minimum Viable Product Part-Time VPE 81

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. In essence, two methodologies do the same thing: They try to bridge the gap between development and operations teams. At first glimpse, they look like competing approaches.

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GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He was losing sleep about his company’s challenges arising from: Poor vendor management A hodgepodge of tech that wouldn’t scale Inability to keep up with new leads Stagnant R&D Lack of focus A week later I found myself in a similar conversation, this time with a VP of Engineering looking for an outside perspective.

Organization 59

Organization Technical Review Part-Time VPE Weak Development Team 59

Netlify

OCTOBER 27, 2020

We wanted to be as autonomous as possible, so we reached for Hasura as a data layer because it would allow us to stand up a full-blown backend for our app without bothering other teams to provision databases or build APIs. We felt confident it would be a huge speed boost for development.

Weak Development Team 56

Weak Development Team Development Serverless Part-Time VPE 56

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And let’s not forget those mandatory, yet pointless meetings scheduled just for the sake of it. And what’s worse is that I’ve found most of these meetings to have no agendas at all. That’s insane.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. Worked there.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Leaders and managers both require skills that can be taught, and developing those employees from within the company can be the most timely and economically efficient way to do so. I am VP of Engineering over there.

Engineering 58

Engineering Leadership Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 58

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And let’s not forget those mandatory, yet pointless meetings scheduled just for the sake of it. And what’s worse is that I’ve found most of these meetings to have no agendas at all.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And let’s not forget those mandatory, yet pointless meetings scheduled just for the sake of it. And what’s worse is that I’ve found most of these meetings to have no agendas at all.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

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. He then took over as Chief Product Officer for Hubba, helping that team triple in size while improving its diversity stats. Why management matters.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Organization Part-Time VPE 40

Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

Taking on an engineering leadership role can be disorienting for fresh recruits from the engineering ranks and seasoned veterans alike. Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering).

Coaching 45

Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 45

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. Eric is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at MailChimp, which is a product you should be using if you’re not, and just one of my new favorite people, we met recently.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75

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. 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. Transcript.

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CTO Coach Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 52

AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 20, 2025

Asure anticipated that generative AI could aid contact center leaders to understand their teams support performance, identify gaps and pain points in their products, and recognize the most effective strategies for training customer support representatives using call transcripts. John Canada, VP of Engineering at Asure.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Cross-team interactions felt fraught; focus was constantly shifting; nobody was ever sure what bar we were being measured against.

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Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? CFS(cloud file system), EOS (Egnyte object store), Content Security, Event Sync, Search Service, User behavior based recommendation service form major parts of the system. You can find more about these in the For The Techies section at our blog.

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