Building & Scaling up a Tech Team

Talk delivered at eChai Developers Summit on 22nd April, 2022. I talked about the challenges tackled and practices we followed while building and scaling up a tech team.

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1. Building & Scaling up a Tech Team
   Paresh Mayani, Co-Founder & CEO @ SolGuruz
   @pareshmayani
   

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2. Challenges
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   Hiring Puzzles
   Communication Challenges
   Team Management
   Brand, Cultures & Values
   Micromanagement
   Code Quality & Architecture
   Repetitive tasks and Automation
   

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3. Hiring Puzzles
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   Don't put all the eggs in 1 basket
   For 1 position, Hire 2
   Don't let the monopoly build
   Keep the hiring always open
   

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4. Hiring Challenges
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   Career page should be distilled
   clear
   Should represent your processes
   and culture
   

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5. Hiring Challenges
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   Most Important
   Think and hire from candidates'
   point of view
   Perks
   How you are unique and
   different
   Culture
   Growth
   

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6. Communication Challenges
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   Daily Scrum Calls
   Evening Status update
   Weekly report
   

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7. Communication Challenges
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   Department Meetings
   Review department progress
   Department Goals and
   achievement
   Define department processes
   & practices
   

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8. Team Management
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   Generate Leaders within the
   organisation
   Build Tasks Ownership
   Promote the talented individuals
   1-on-1 Mentorship / Buddy
   Define onboarding process
   Rewards, Perks and
   Appreciations
   Career Growth
   KPI / OKR
   

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9. Branding, Culture & Values
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   Build the brand
   Enforce values, mission and
   vision from top to bottom
   Friendly atmosphere and Flexible
   environment
   Build consensus before rolling
   out any processes
   

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10. Micromanagement
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    Don't do micro management
    It's a slow poison
    Let the team members fails, retry
    and learn from the failures
    

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11. Code Quality & Architecture
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    Department bible
    Define processes & practices
    Peer to Peer code review
    Implement Static Code Analysis
    practices
    Have team members exploring
    the new tech and practices
    

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12. Repetitive Tasks &
    Automation
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    Automate as many as mundane
    tasks possible
    Examples:
    Implemented CI/CD (aka build
    automation)
    Implement Automated code
    review (Static Code Analysis)
    

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13. Let's Stay in Touch
    @pareshmayani
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/pareshmayani/
    

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