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Scaling Engineering from 30 to 300 Without Losing Velocity

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Summary

A CTO describes splitting into mission teams at around eighty engineers, the single velocity metric they protected, and why they hired managers who had already crossed a hundred.

Jason's analysis

The tell here is they re-orged before the pain, not after. Reactive re-orgs are why most scale-ups stall at a hundred. The discipline to act early is the competency I would hire for.

Questions asked

  1. What broke first when you crossed 100 engineers?
  2. How did you protect velocity through the re-org?
  3. What did you look for in the managers you hired?

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