How To Evolve An Engineering Organization
- Will Larson tl;dr: The following are explained in detail (1) measure what you hope to improve (2) size the org against peers, goals and performance (3) structure into smaller teams (4) project growth (5) rest in between changes to master the current structure.featured in #135
As Your Team Gets Bigger, Your Leadership Style Has to Adapt
- Julie Zhuo tl;dr: As teams grow quickly, leadership style changes in the following ways - move from direct to indirect management, reports treat you differently, more context switching, re-prioritization of challenges & focus of people-centric skills. The article outlines ways to manage these changes as they happen.featured in #134
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How Is Software Developed At Amazon?
- Todd Hoff tl;dr: Fireside chat with Ken Exner, GM at AWS Dev Tools. The article summarizes it more extensively than I will. Key ideas are: Create more autonomy and higher velocity by moving away from monolithic architecture towards microservices and two pizza teams 🍕🍕 Automate everything Culture of ownership and accountability. Two pizza teams own everything relevant to their product. They acts like startups, managers oversee startups Are the short summaries (tl;dr sections) helpful? Please vote herefeatured in #131