Scaling Engineering & Product Teams
summary
Reorganizes product engineering from three broad groups into four focused teams — core product, investing, cash management, app foundations — to reduce handoffs and give single owners for end-to-end journeys. Creates and protects dedicated headcount for engineering foundation work, scopes one representative metric end-to-end before generalizing, and fills missing skills with a mix of hires and contractors. Adds a technical programs team and engineering operations role, recommending start TPMs around 200 engineers and protect dedicated headcount for foundation work.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08Problems
- 2:10Restructuring Product Engineering
- 7:45Engineering Foundation Challenges
- 13:28Engineering Operations Challenges
- 16:17Scaling the Team
- 17:56Recruiting
- 20:47TPMs
- 23:13Engineering vs PMs
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