Establishing a winning engineering culture

How to create winning software teams? 🏆

This is a guide for engineering teams. Every software development team has the challenges with efficient product development. It is always difficult yet not impossible to deliver to many customers with minimum effort.

The more customers, the more effort is required to ship and increasing the headcount is not the right thing to do. The larger the teams, the harder to align development tracks, that’s why scaling in a smart way is required. The most important factor to achieve large development teams delivering efficiently is establishing an engineering culture across the board.

There are many different ways and many different ideas about this topic and this guide includes my observations and best practices of creating winning software teams and scaling in a smart way. I believe every manager at technology business is trying to solve this very same problem, and there are many ways to solve it. Having worked at different technology domains, for global organizations, this guide addresses the problems and efficiencies of:

• Geographically distributed or remote teams 🌍
• Multi-cultural organizations 🟰
• Global organizations working together at different time zones ⌚

I tried to keep this distilled information as practical as possible and easy to apply. Although there is no secret sauce, there are different recipes throughout this guide. You can, choose to establish the guide as your company’s way of working but instead I would read through and select the ones that are relevant for your business and team characteristics.

What is this guide covering?

The guide is divided in to 4 parts, and the flow is incremental, and when all these parts are combined, the result is a successful technology business organization. The parts are:

1. Explore 🔎: How to scope new product opportunities
2. Navigate🧭 : How to do roadmap and release planning across multiple teams
3. Own 💾 : How to make teams responsible for the products
4. Monitor 🕶️: How to manage the risks and major problems that would cause delay of product delivery.