Scaling Teams: Strategies for Building Successful Teams and Organizations

by Alexander Grosse

If hiring and people management are the essential ingredients of productivity,

With proper training and a healthy culture, people managers can help teams scale by maintaining morale, ensuring alignment between work assignments and company goals, resolving disputes, and preparing the engineering team for the next phases of growth.

“People management provides the structure and connective tissue to allow a group to achieve a common objective.”

Without these fundamentals in place, most teams have no hope of scaling successfully.

Transition stage During rapid growth the team finds a market and starts to grow quickly from 25 to 100. The ad hoc people management approach starts to break down. The leadership team begins to formalize management roles and transition or hire individuals into those roles (

Stage we are in

transition stage,

Confusion about the direction of the work and team

management debt:

The founders’ previous management experience

Factors for making the chagned

Delaying Formal Management

See Alexander Grosse’s blog post “Peer Feedback” for more information.

Todo

The overarching theme here is to avoid surprises and an erosion of trust.