Making do: Scaling expertise on teams you can't grow
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Claim: rebuild team structure not headcount. Concrete actions include migrated legacy warehouse into Google BigQuery using Python SQL Airflow and Terraform and creating a shared front-end team serving the entire Enterprise pillar. A staff of ~40 at the DNC and a consolidated front-end swarm at Slack deliver 22 completed projects and two major launches; the flexible-model team experiment proves swarming and on-call rotations scale scarce expertise and sustain delivery under hiring freezes and layoffs.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:10Growth challenges
- 5:37DNC experience contrast
- 7:02DNC shared services
- 13:46Scaling expertise
- 16:12Shared services proposal
- 19:22Front-end results
- 21:49Prioritization and collaboration
- 23:34Swarm model expansion
- 25:21Lean team challenges
- 26:45Call to action
