When your engineering team is small, you have visibility into all the nitty-gritty details of your software delivery pipeline. You know which tickets are moving, you know the CI runs, and you probably even know which PRs are pending.
But, as your business and team grow, the challenges you face evolve. And you’re pulled further and further away from those valuable details.
The more you zoom out on the map, the less visibility you have. Fortunately, you can always zoom in when needed.
The trick is to know where to zoom in.
Today we will delve into the challenges you will face as your organization scales from 5 to 250 engineers by focusing on three dimensions of your software development pipeline:
Eiso Kant
Scaling Your Team From 5 to 250 Engineers: A Complete Guide | Athenian
Engineering Leaders have two responsibilities:
👉 Improve the developer experience
👉 Deliver impact to the end-user
These two are infinitely linked, and, when done successfully, will help you create a culture of continuous improvement. We believe this can be done with the right metrics and data.
