Sustainably scaling engineering teams requires a lot of different elements. Here are eight things your org needs to build teams effectively.
Effectively scaling an engineering team is always challenging. Whether you are scaling your whole startup organization to meet rising demand, or just spinning up a new team to tackle a big project, there are a set of core principles that will help you build healthy teams that stay aligned with the broader business context.
I’ve regularly seen teams that are built through rudimentary size and effort calculations struggle to scale. Imagine it takes roughly six months to develop a new product, hiring three engineers and putting them to work does not help to ship the product in two months.