The Best Product Engineering Org in the World (and more)

[James Shore]

Hi everyone,

Apologies! I've fallen behind on sending announcements about new blog content. (The best way to stay up to date is probably to use RSS: https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/site/subscribe . That's automatic; these emails are manual, and I plumb forgot to do them.)

The biggest thing I've written recently is “The Best Product Engineering Org in the World,” which is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo. People like this one. You might too.

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2025/the-best-product-engineering-org-in-the-world

I'm also pointing people to Jade Rubick and Brent Miller's video about Project Upscale, an intensive effort I led to reduce gridlock at New Relic. Brent says: "From one year to the next, we went from hitting zero of the big three [deliverables] to hitting at least the top ten plus extras, having [also] spent all the time and effort to do the transformation. It was just a mind-blowing result at the end."

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2025/upscale-and-team-self-selection

And last August, I provided an update on the Software Engineering Career Ladder:

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2024/update-on-software-engineering-career-ladder

Thanks for reading! I'll try to be better about getting these out in the future.

Cheers,

James

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