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How to staff small specialist teams with three heads: map existing skills, hire or assign comb-shaped engineers who cover front-end and back-end overlap, and accept one generalist plus two focused roles. On-call rotations include ops plus a developer or security pager so fixes start fast and escalate; multiple people share duty. Sell headcount with measurable outcomes—support ticket reduction or velocity gains—and prevent single-owner loss with recorded zoom code reviews and mandatory docs and shadowing.
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- 5:34Measure Velocity
- 9:09What Can You Do To Prevent that Tribal Knowledge from Going Out the Door
- 12:12What Do You Call Shoes Made out of Banana Peels
- 16:56Supply Chain Attacks
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