What it takes to scale engineering
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The Changelog – Episode #527
What it takes to scale engineering
with Rachel Potvin, former VP of Engineering at GitHub
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This week we’re talking to Rachel Potvin, former VP of Engineering at GitHub about what it takes to scale engineering. Rachel says it’s a game-changer when engineering scales beyond 100 people. So we asked to her to share everything she has learned in her career of leading and scaling engineering.
- 87 minutes
- Recorded Jan 25, 2023
- Published Feb 17, 2023
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Chapters
| 1 | 00:00 |
This week on The Changelog |
| 2 | 00:55 | |
| 3 | 02:46 |
Start the show! |
| 4 | 12:57 |
Requested by name |
| 5 | 20:35 |
How did you know or learn what to do? |
| 6 | 25:39 |
Understanding constraints |
| 7 | 27:25 |
100 people is a game-changing threshold |
| 8 | 37:33 |
Lead by caring for people |
| 9 | 39:56 |
What's worth building now? |
| 10 | 47:42 |
Using decision logs |
| 11 | 51:40 |
Choosing the right tools for communication |
| 12 | 56:24 |
This is NOT my problem |
| 13 | 1:04:12 |
What is psychological safety? |
| 14 | 1:10:07 |
Scaling, but maintaining code health |
| 15 | 1:21:29 |
Wrapping up |
| 16 | 1:24:15 |
It's been fun |
| 17 | 1:24:35 |
Outro |
Transcript
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