Why you should skip team leads in your engineering org structure | Tech Leaders Hub #35
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For our next session of Tech Leaders Hub, we were pleased to welcome Yakov Becker, Chief Technology Officer at Investing.com. Yakov has a wealth of experience in the technology industry, including leading the development of multiple product lines and managing teams in various roles. At Investing.com, his teams are responsible for everything from product development through DevOps up to support for production.
We were exploring the topic of why you should skip team leads in your engineering organization structure—an approach Yakov has successfully tested in the past with good results.
As always, we also took the chance to draw from Yakov’s deep experience and unearth other pieces of advice tech leaders can benefit from.
If you want to benefit from his lessons learned and become a better leader for your engineering org, you need to watch this session!
During the live stream, we discussed about:
– The benefits and drawbacks of skipping team leads in engineering organizations
– How this structure can impact team dynamics, communication, and decision-making
– Yakov's experiences with this approach and the lessons he has learned
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Timestamps:
0:00 Why you should skip team leads in your engineering org structure | Tech Leaders Hub #35
1:15 Who do you hope is tuning in today?
3:43 What is your #1 tip for tech leaders?
9:07 What alternatives would you suggest to deadlines with multiple projects?
13:05 What is your professional background? What do you do at Investing.com? What do they do?
16:34 What do you love the most about your work and job as CTO?
18:08 When was the first time you realized team leads could be skipped in an organizational structure?
26:18 Who should typically be appointed team lead?
35:07 What if the development team argues over what technology they should use?
39:47 What should be the role and workload of functional managers?
43:45 If not the team lead, then who from the team should be the first contact to the CTO for example?
50:56 How can the Product Owners know how to prioritize the backlog?
55:10 Is there anything you'd like to add to our conversation?
58:08 Do you have any announcements for our audience?