How to build a flexible engineering team

We've seen in the last few years rapid organizational changes from an initial COVID scale down to then scaling up as a digital economy boomed to now a market contraction driving painful layoffs.

How can we as engineering leaders be ever-flexible for this and other important changes such as the move toward remote and asynchronous work?

We'll talk about the elements of structure that are within most leaders' control, including strategies to:

• balance number of seniors and juniors on a team to ensure good engineering delivery both now and in the future
• allocate team members across work that better accommodates quick scale ups or downs, hopefully avoiding painful layoffs
• ethically leverage outsourced teams or contractors to improve flexibility
• manage a team you've inherited, where the above decisions may have already been made, or
• deal with sudden team changes including mergers or declines

And for more senior leaders with a broader scope of responsibility for the engineering organization, we'll also briefly cover how to:

• design team sizes, rollups, and levels
• manage the interface between engineering and the rest of the company

About the speaker
Vitor Oliveira is a 3x technical founder, a hands-on CTO and leader with a strong focus on mobile, desktop, and web development and 16 years of experience. He’s an EdTech entrepreneur building Napice, an education & community platform for software engineers to grow as leaders. Vitor is passionate about mentoring junior developers as he loves to see people succeeding in the development world!

Agenda for the session

• 30 min – Presentation and Q&A (this part will be recorded & shared later)
• 30 min – Discussion in small groups, where you can chat with peers about your own challenges and learnings (this part won't be recorded)

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