Growth Engineering
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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Isford: Tying engineering performance to metric movement incentivizes costly over-experimentation
“There shouldn't be, especially in engineering within the world of growth, a culture around having to point to numbers to demonstrate your impact, because if there is, then the team will buy us to experiments all the time. And that's not necessarily the right t…”
Effective growth engineers happily discard code and embrace imperfection
“The devs that really thrive in a growth context are the ones that are motivated by moving quickly, iterating to create measurable impact. They're not attached to their work. They embrace imperfection as part of the process. They happily discard their code, the…”
Fast Growth Experimentation Clashes With Traditional Software Engineering Standards
“Yeah, and it gets to a fundamental question around the DNA of the engineering team and of the specific engineers, because growth by its nature is about experimentation. And so often you're writing throwaway code, something that isn't really like robust and pro…”
Scott: SaaS companies must master unscalable white-glove service before automating customer success
“Pay attention to the white glove service, which doesn't inherently scale, to then be able to at some point in time scale that whether it's through digital channels, or through automation, or growth engineering, or a combination of all those.”