How to Manage Engineering Teams at Scale
What are the main pitfalls engineering teams face when they start growing rapidly? Bringing more people to the team is never a solution on its own, especially not when going from a team of 5 to 20+. Suddenly, everything that used to work seamlessly does not anymore.
At this Fireside Chat, Andrew is going to tap into his past experience of growing and managing engineering teams in times of rapid growth. Join us to learn how to scale your team and establish good processes that will support the growth of your team.
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Chapters:
0:30 Introduction
5:00 What are some of the most interesting difficulties that teams you have been part of experienced?
6:49 What are the biggest challenges you faced when organizing teams in startups and funding?
14:10 How to adapt your team to the challenges, and the fast-paced growth?
23:35 How important are the “retrospectives”?
33:05 How do you go about bringing in engineering managers?
37:20 How to develop engineers to become managers?
39:23 When it comes to monolith architecture to microservices one what are the best practices in organizing the team?
44:10 What are some things that big companies like google do better in organizing engineering teams?
48:12 How many engineers should be on the engineering team so that the team can function sufficiently?
50:00 Should Dev-ops be part of the engineering team or a separate entity?
51:36 What if the company is not aware of its growth, what to do then?
54:00 How would you approach building processes in a team that does not have any?
55:20 Final thoughts