Team Design and More
Over time, engineering managers have opportunities to reshape their engineering teams, reconsidering how they are organized and oriented to their work. This reshaping might be gradual, as managers work to guide engineers and influence their team climate and emergent states, or it may be sudden in response to organizational change.
Engineering team design refers to how you structure your engineering team, its roles, and how those roles operate. Team design optimizes productivity and other success metrics, such as efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation. You might have an opportunity to design your team from scratch during an organizational change event, but more often, team design involves incremental changes to solve team problems that crop up in day-to-day work.
In this chapter, you will learn the foundational concepts in designing engineering teams. You will learn about team structures and characteristics and revisit Conway’s Law. You will receive...
