Movac Workshops: Building systems (software and human) to handle scale
Agenda: How do you go from 1 engineer to an R&D team of 100? What roles and layers should you introduce, and what ratios should you be using for product management, design, testing, and internal ops? How should you split up work across the team as it grows, without creating unhealthy silos?
You’re about to go global and need to deal with customer issues throughout the night, or maybe you’ve scaled quickly and your systems are struggling to keep up with demand. Alerts are constantly pinging and the team is feeling burned out. Good news! These are signs of rapid growth and there is a way through them. Let’s talk about alert triage, system robustness, healthy on-call rotations and more.
This session is led by Ben Gracewood, and Anne Dröge.
Anne is VP of Product at Lightspeed, an NYSE-listed point-of-sale and e-commerce software platform provider. Prior to Lightspeed, Anne was at Zalando, Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle.
Ben is a CTO / VP of Engineering with experience across multiple sectors including SaaS, finance, and media. While a technologist at heart, his primary expertise is growing diverse, high-performance product engineering teams and implementing the culture, values, tools and processes required to deliver software at pace.
Ben was Vend’s first engineering manager, where he grew the engineering team from 8 to 80, shipped product on average every 6 minutes, and ultimately contributed to Vend’s ~NZ$500m exit. He’s also co-founder of NZ’s largest independent software engineering conference, Codemania.
Who should attend? This workshop is open to CTOs, CEOs, CFOs, COOs and engineering leadership.
This session is part of the Movac Engineering Chapter Curriculum. Full line-up and registration: Introducing...the Engineering Chapter | Movac | Venture Capital
