Fork this template on Google Docs Something about the close-knit social chemistry of a small team gives them a shared brain. Of course you know that last week Michelle decided all new frontend work would happen in Typescript. Ambient awareness is less and less effective as an alignment tool as an organization grows, and becomes quite unreliable as an organization grows past ~twenty folks. One tool that folks use to scale alignment around key decisions is the “decision log.”| Infrastructure Engineering
Fork this template on Google Docs It’s impossible to avoid headcount planning when running a large team within an engineering organization. On the other hand, many folks find it’s impossible to be usefully involved in headcount planning when the folks running the process aren’t closely involved with your work: Infrastructure? Oh, that’s going great: no crashes or breaches lately, we don’t need to invest here!| Infrastructure Engineering