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Build Engineering Turing Fest 2019

How To Eat A Burrito (And Other Lessons Learned Scaling Engineering Teams)

Olly Headey

Every person is an individual and every team is unique. There is no secret sauce or set formula to follow when trying to build a successful team. You need to forge your own path and build your own culture, but you can learn a lot about approaches to try, and pitfalls to avoid, from the experiences of those who have spent time on the wild rollercoaster ride that is scaling a fast-growing software engineering team.

In this talk Olly will uncover some of the lessons he's learned while overseeing the growth of the FreeAgent engineering team from 1 to 75 developers and managers over the past 12 years.