Goldberg: Box resolved a six-month engineering debate with one advisory meeting
Arnie Goldberg · a16z Podcast | Building the Right Technical Advisory Board · Jan 2, 2019 · at 7:42
Arnie Goldberg explains how Box used an external technical advisory board to break an internal engineering stalemate over database choices.
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“Six months went by, and this debate raged within our engineering team, and even as we hired, you know, more senior people to come in, and the debate wouldn't go away. All it took was one formal conversation with, you know, some of the, as I created this architecture board, this advisory board for people from the outside that would come in, give them context as quickly as possible around the problem, and they had a lot of seniority and experience in actually going down the path of some of these choices. Quickly we realized we need to go down a more tried and true path versus, ah, another path.”
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