Organizing Engineering Teams

As your company grows, team organization will become more important to ensure success. In this presentation, I talk about strategies for how to structure an engineering organization into successful teams.

I'll talk about when and how to reorg, the principles that go into creating highly functional teams, management structures, and rollout considerations.

Transcript

1. Organizing Engineering Teams
2. • ConvertKit • 17 • 2 Hello!
3. Why Reorg? 01
4. Increase Communication
5. Reduce Decision Friction
6. Focus Attention
7. Cues 02
8. unstructured too big
9. unplanned work
12. strategic space
14. Right Now?
15. Antipatterns 03
16. temporary
17. bad relationship
18. right roles right headcount
19. Principles 04
20. Delivery Teams
21. ideas production Principles
22. Delivery Team
23. ownership areas clear interfaces Great Teams
24. autonomous Great Teams
25. Management structures 05
26. Dedicated Moonlight Management
27. Moonlight Manager on team
28. Manager per specialization Team 1 Team 2 Team 3
29. Dedicated People Manager Team 1 Team 2 Team 3
30. Rollout Considerations 06
31. 6 months Before you commit
32. gaps Before you commit
33. next reorg Before you commit
34. 1o1s Before you commit
35. THANKS!