DESIGNING THE TOPOLOGY OF YOUR ENGINEERING TEAM
summary
Edpuzzle treats engineering team design as a product to be shaped deliberately rather than picking a prepackaged structure or letting chaos decide. The talk examines reasons and consequences of different technical team organization choices and describes how those choices played out at a profitable tech company with millions of users (Edpuzzle).
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:15Design team topology
- 6:04Topology as strategy
- 7:08Six key factors
- 17:23Puzzle's mental model
- 19:50Sustainability and size
- 26:15Growth phases
- 31:35Rotation and retention
- 34:22Dynamic structure
- 37:55Engineering management
- 39:18Hiring and values
- 45:22Adapting and iterating
- 46:47Q&A
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