How to Scale a Team and Increase Velocity?

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The size of the domain shouldn't escape ten engineers om matean. I think it's just mission critical that you don't have engineers dis swapin, for lack of a better turm jumping from one project to the next. It actually looks a lot like a distributed system on some of the principles that you would take from that. But if you understand theu distributive system's architecture isand why you would use evented systems,. boba, blok, all the different various things, you can kind of understand what you're doing and your goals.

Co-Founder and CEO of Moov Financial, Wade Arnold, has had a hell of a journey as a software engineering leader. He joins us on the podcast to chat about building companies, attracting great software engineering talent, and increasing velocity as you scale.

Key takeaways:

Software engineers love working in an environment where their craft shines. If you manage to provide this, you will have no issues growing your team.
Finding technical engineering leaders is easy. You want to find technical engineering leaders who know how to create the right environment for their teams to thrive.
Don't get religious about your engineering tools and processes. What matters is getting things in front of the customer, and the tools you use to get there should simply facilitate that.

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