I’ve come to believe that most organizational design questions can be answered by recursively applying a framework for sizing teams. Over the past year I’ve refined my approach to team sizing into a bit of a framework, and even changed my mind on several aspects, especially the viability of small teams. This post describes how I now size teams| lethain.com
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