"Challenges while growing company from 18 to 55 employees during a year" from Oleg Dats

Slides about how effectively build company and establish communication within management.

1. Organizational structure from 15 to 55+ Oleg Dats
2. Lviv Polytechnic: Computer Science 9+ years in IT Worked at Intellias (450 employees) From junior java developer to team lead (10+ devs) EventInArea: EastLabs business incubator HappyScan: 100+ restaurants in Lviv and Kyiv Oleg Dats CEO at TechMagic
3. • Established in 2014, Lviv • Team of 57 people • +200% growth from last year • Tech focus: iOS, Android, Node.js • Partners in San Francisco, Boston and London • Excellent feedbacks from ALL customers • TOP Rated agency on UpWork • Market leaders on Clutch
4. 2 years ago: Coworking
5. Moved to our first office 6 month later: moving to the first office
6. Celebrating Company Birthday: 1 year! After 1 year of the hard work
7. Keep growing: found a bigger home for our ninjas After 2 years of the hard work
8. The organization of work that helped allowed us to grow 3x times in a year
9. The organizational structure at 15 people HR recruiting sales salary cookies team lead on the project interview Internet income emails accounting
10. Organizational structure at 55+
11. HR & Recruiting
12. • Freelancers • Recruitment Agencies • Recruiters that combine freelancing and full-time job Internal Recruiting team: 1 HR generalist + Outsource recruiting: Recruitment We’ve tried 5 times these options and each time it failed. • Lead • 1 HR • 2 Recruiters Recruiter KPIs - 2 vacancies per month
13. Training centre 400 resumes were received in 1 month (DOU best channel) 100 invited to take a test 90 candidates took a test (technical + English) Top 20 were invited to the interview Top 10 were invited to the express 2-weeks course 9 participated 4 with best results were invited for 3-months trial project 3 completed the test project
14. Onboarding
15. Exit
16. New roles in the company Names and responsibilities needs to be carefully generated and presented to everybody ?! ?! ?! ?! Who is this guy?
17. Accounting
18. People want to see an accountant as there are many issues they want to discuss internally Internal Accounting team Outsource accounting
19. Office
20. From Skype to ticketing system
21. Sharing data: always use groups
22. Engineering
23. Super CTO Matrix organization structure
24. Engineering QA George QA Mobile devs. Mykhailo Mobile devs. Web devs. Andrew Web devs. Team lead Project B Team lead Project A Web Competence Lead Mobile Competence Lead QA Competence Lead Strong Matrix Organization Structure: most of the power and authority lie with the team lead
25. Project management
27. Time tracking: from Excel to Harvest Easy in collecting but complicated in analyzing. Simple tool to collect, track, analyze data and form bills.
28. Account manager
29. Sales
30. Incoming requests
31. Solution
33. This guy will not do it for you!
34. Problems Changes Solutions Adizes
35. Questions? Add me on Facebook: /oleg.dats Contact me: oleg@techmagic.co