Reflections on How to Build and Run an Effective Software Engineering Organization
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A recounting of practical lessons from twenty years running a small web-software company: built an early booking engine with one engineer then scaled the organization; removed heavy bureaucracy in favor of minimal administration and team roadbooks; adopted microservices, canary testing, a machine-learning team, and cloud operations; focused on onboarding as the key bottleneck during growth spikes and emphasized that the first engineer defines quality and culture.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:43Company growth to 10 people
- 10:55Engineering org principles
- 17:29Hiring engineers
- 24:21Onboarding engineers
- 30:30Tech adoption in small teams
- 36:12Crisis and org change
- 38:27Future of work
- 42:10Q&A
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