Engineering Leadership in Crisis: Rebuilding Trust, Technology, and Teamwork
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Upon joining Payaut three of eight employees leave and three more plan to, the codebase has hadn't deployed in 4 months and engineers use different languages and frameworks. The recovery centers on concrete moves: buying new laptops and IntelliJ licenses, switching to Google Workspace, standing up GitLab CI and Kubernetes on Google Cloud, hiring four consultants, and prioritizing one customer, winkelstraat.nl. The result is faster delivery, new customers onboarded, higher morale, and eventual acquisition by Nave.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:42Engineering leadership crises
- 8:18Teams in crisis needs
- 11:59Turning around failing teams
- 16:31Rebuilding trust and tech outcomes
- 18:17Leadership learnings
- 20:46Empowering teams to grow
- 21:08Q&A
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