How to Effectively grow a Development team
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Built a new "digital airport" handling traffic spikes from events (16 million annual passengers) by creating three to five product teams from scratch, running ~150 interviews in two months, and moving infrastructure to infrastructure as code (Ansible/Puppet), CD/CI, automated tests and modern PHP. Hiring focuses on shared values not recruiters, mentoring and pair programming to level juniors into seniors, mandatory code review, better tooling (multiple monitors, PHPStorm license), fewer meetings, and measurable gains: happier developers, higher quality output, less reliance on recruiters.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:44Who am I
- 5:30What is your culture
- 6:05What is a developer culture
- 6:46What is good developer culture
- 7:11What are mythical values
- 8:15Three core values
- 12:13How to find people
- 15:42What do they want
- 16:16What do they need
- 23:24Distractions
- 28:00Building a team
- 31:05Team teaming model
- 36:07Become an advocate
- 36:18Conclusion
- 37:24Question
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