Every engineering leader at a growing startup encounters the same challenge at some point: how to ensure your teams are making decisions in a roughly coherent way. When a startup is young, it’s easy to keep all the engineers on the same page. Everyone is in the same codebase, working on the same thing and talking through technical decisions on a daily basis. But as a startup begins to scale, this natural alignment starts to fall away. Cliques and tribes form as different teams evolve distin...
