Davis: Require multiple over-capacity quarters and task pruning before adding headcount
Timothy Davis · The ultimate guide to paid growth | Timothy Davis (Shopify) · Jul 28, 2024 · at 1:17:16
Timothy Davis (Shopify performance marketing lead) describes how his team uses a quarterly workload calculator to prevent organizational bloat and justify new hires.
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“Next quarter it's red again. All right. Now maybe we need to start having the conversation of what this new hire will take over. What they will be responsible for and how much work they'll be taking on and doing to replace some of this red that is going on. And if it equates to a full head, great. We can move forward. We've made our business case. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes we're just red and we need to do a better job of making sure, hey, we need to step out of these meetings.”
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