#55 - Rachel Potvin // VP Engineering @ Github
Tips on Developer Productivity for Rapidly Scaling Teams
alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders
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Show Notes
Find out how to maintain developer productivity 🧑💻 in a fast scaling team in this CTO podcast featuring Rachel Potvin, VP Engineering at GitHub (formerly of Google and Ubisoft). She shares how GitHub uses things like fan-out processes, design reviews, and DevSat surveys to stay on track even as the team 3Xed💥.
Listen to find out:
- Why you should focus on team 👥 productivity metrics (+which ones)
- How they are using the ‘Layers of the System’ 🍔 approach to work out GitHub’s future architecture 🏛️ (SPOILER: It might not be entirely monolithic forever)
- How they prioritised build 🏗️ queues to minimise context switching
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