
Engineering Manifestos
We go on a journey with Engineering/Technology leaders to understand their approach to Engineering strategy, viz. how they figure out what is needed from the Engineering team to help their company win, and how they apply that to their Engineering teams.
Each company context (company, business, marketplace, competitive environment) at a given point in time is unique. In order to succeed, a set of choices within Engineering on Objectives, Culture, Organization and Process & Systems needs to be made. We seek to gain an understanding of the tools and practices/processes for building teams and products to help companies win.
Engineering Manifestos
Building Eng at RudderStack with Sumanth Puram
Sumanth Puram, VPE, RudderStack, shares the story of scaling the Eng team more than 10X, on the path from Customer Validation to Customer Creation.
- 1:58 [Provenance] Build tooling for developers
- 3:54 [Customer Validation (Process)] Hypothesis Testing of the need for a "CDP for Developers"
- 6:54 [People] Type of people you need in the initial team
- 18:20 [Customer Validation (Process)] Challenges with building a product for Developers
- 23:30 [People] How Transparency helps with scaling the team
- 31:40 [People] Book recommendation for frameworks for scaling Eng teams