Scaling Engineering Teams at Twitter • Ity Kaul • GOTO 2017

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2017
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Ity Kaul - Tech Lead at Twitter ‪@itykaul‬

ORIGINAL TALK TITLE
Scaling Engineering Teams

ABSTRACT
All teams go through several lifecycle phases, whether in a startup or an established enterprise. This talk should help you identify which phase of growth lifecycle your team is in and how being aware of it can help you build the right culture, make effective technology choices, hire people who will thrive in your current and next phases of growth so that you are setup [...]

TIMECODES
0:00 Introduction
1:10 Overview Speed. Stability. Quality. Growth
1:49 Scaling Engineering Teams
2:45 Ultimate goal
4:25 Engineering excellence
6:13 Company stages (and Inflection points)
6:54 Stage 1 Speed
8:31 Team Composition: Doers
10:59 Stage I warning signs ...
11:55 Stage II Stability
13:28 Stage Il Team Composition: Specialists
14:17 Stage III Quality
17:23 Stage III Team Composition: Slow and Steady
19:44 Stage III warning signs ...
20:41 Stage IV Growth
22:38 Other stages ...
24:45 Manage Inflection Points
25:41 System 1 vs System 2
29:24 Changing direction
32:41 Summary
34:17 References

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