engineering team

“I think the most common failure I see is people failing to teach Their engineering teams or their product and engineering teams, how to think about the business they are in.”

“So your unit of measurement for health is at the team level versus the individual level, especially as you scale.”

“Fundamentally, the rule of thumb I use here is your team is your unit of concurrency. And so the number of work streams you want to be solving at the same time is how many teams you need. And so the more things you're trying to do at the same time, the more te…”

“Something I believe pretty strongly is that teams should generally be one manager to like six to eight engineers. I think this is a really useful sizing mechanism.”

“The bad ones create a scenario where engineering doesn't feel like they have a vote in what gets built. And the, this 29% time that we're talking about here is one of my countermeasures to that, in that an engineering culture where they don't feel they can inv…”

“Every customer, in addition to having a forward deployed owner, also has a member of the regular engineering team as an assigned person. So every engineer on the team has a deep appreciation, understanding of what we're building, who it's for, why we're buildi…”