As organizations grow more complex, the folks running them interface with reality through increasingly incorporeal abstractions. On the smallest teams, leadership might be deep in the code on a daily basis. A bit larger, and you’re talking about tasks in sprints. Larger still, and you’re talking about collections of tasks, and adopting fancy terminology like ’epics.’ At a hundred plus engineers, you’re likely talking primarily in themes of work with focus on several key initiatives....| lethain.com
A while ago I wrote about modeling a hiring funnel as an example of creating a system model, but that post doesn’t explore how the process of evolving a system model can be helpful. This post does.| lethain.com
I’m speaking at Velocity on June 12th on ‘How Stripe invests in technical infrastructure’, and this is the rough outline of the content the talk will cover. I hope to see y’all there.| lethain.com