Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2020

CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. They are often confused with CIOs, VPs of Engineering, or Technical Directors. VP of Engineering – tech team management. If CTO is an enthusiast, then VP of Engineering is a great manager. Engineering tasks.

CTO 76

CTO Technical Review Technical Advisors CTO Coach 76

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.

Part-Time VPE 58

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Fractional VPE 58

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. People need to grow and develop skills in order to move within the framework.

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

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

Software Engineering Technical Advisors Engineering Software 63

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

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. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

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.

DevOps 96

DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

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

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

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

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. Our team has spent days preparing this guide to help you understand how to make the most out of every day. Whereas, in June, your team manufactured 10,000 pairs of shoes. That’s insane.

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. Our team has spent days preparing this guide to help you understand how to make the most out of every day. Whereas, in June, your team manufactured 10,000 pairs of shoes. That’s insane.

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. Our team has spent days preparing this guide to help you understand how to make the most out of every day. Whereas, in June, your team manufactured 10,000 pairs of shoes. That’s insane.

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

Tenable

MAY 3, 2024

1 - Verizon DBIR: Hackers feasting on unpatched vulnerabilities This year’s edition of Verizon’s “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) is out, and a key finding is that attackers tripled down on exploiting vulnerabilities to gain an initial foothold in victims’ networks. 1, 2022 to Oct.

Programming 77

Programming Infrastructure Conference Fractional VPE 77

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. This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. They tend to be passionate, senior developers.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. Welcome, Monica! I never looked back.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Part-Time VPE Software Review Weak Development Team 100

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.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 52

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

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.

Part-Time VPE 98

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.

Architecture 21

Architecture Data Center Software Review Systems Review 21