Using engineering principles to create autonomous teams at scale

How can you create a set of shared beliefs that steers everyone in the right direction?

In early April 2018, we launched Skyscanner’s first set of guiding principles for engineering, internally known as ‘Our Engineering Principles’. Today, this allows all of our engineers to follow a shared set of beliefs and collaborate effectively across our teams. In this article, I’d like to give insight into why we needed them, what they are, and explore some secret sauce ingredients that keep them alive.

What are Skyscanner’s engineering principles?

Principles are defined as: a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief, behavior, or a chain of reasoning.

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