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Evaluating your team's success as you grow

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Talkat Elevate 2019 by Plato · on Wednesday, 2019-08-14· [engineering-leadership, observability]

speakers

name:Howard Sueing
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name:Kathryn Koehler
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name:Danny Chai
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name:Cosmin Nicolaescu
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/mIwJaLYayQg
slides:none on file

summary

Engineering orgs use quarterly OKRs linked to Jira epics and a mix of automated and manual tracking — Google Sheets for managers, monthly cross-functional reports, and metrics like commit-to-close rates and bug SLAs plus SLOs for reliability. Growth-stage firms (Brex, LogDNA, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) emphasize culture metrics, mentoring and code review health over raw throughput. Anecdotes include watching Facebook grow from ~300 to ~20,000 and learning that risky bets succeed ~5% of the time.

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chapters (9)

  1. 0:00Evaluating team success
  2. 2:51Panelist backgrounds
  3. 5:39Mistakes in measuring success
  4. 8:02Pushback on metrics
  5. 11:10Metrics versus product excellence
  6. 13:13Tracking OKRs and KPIs
  7. 15:38Career advice from mentors
  8. 21:15Growth mindset for leaders
  9. 22:17Closing remarks & Q&A

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