Engineering Manager's Handbook

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Team Design and More

Over time, engineering managers have opportunities to reshape their engineering teams, reconsidering how they are organized and oriented to their work. This reshaping might be gradual, as managers work to guide engineers and influence their team climate and emergent states, or it may be sudden in response to organizational change.

Engineering team design refers to how you structure your engineering team, its roles, and how those roles operate. Team design optimizes productivity and other success metrics, such as efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation. You might have an opportunity to design your team from scratch during an organizational change event, but more often, team design involves incremental changes to solve ...