# Tools for Managing a Large Team
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Discusses tools and practices for managing engineering teams larger than ~30 people, addressing leadership challenges beyond the typical 7±2 team size. Covers goal delivery for stakeholders, techniques to develop and retain team skills and productivity, and management strategies for sustaining the team under pressure.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:14Team dynamics
- 3:44Team stages and challenges
- 6:57Team goals
- 9:26Team lifecycle
- 11:32Scaling teams
- 14:50Corporate vs digital teams
- 16:59Digital transformation
- 19:26Managing product teams
- 21:56Team health metrics
- 24:50Command team roles
- 28:07Burnout in teams
- 30:35Leadership tasks
- 34:16Team coaching
- 37:10Individual growth
- 41:04Career paths
- 44:17Coaching vs training
- 45:00Monitoring team health in Steam
- 46:30High-performance teams
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