Dev Interrupted

Startup Growth & Metrics: What to Measure & When | Laura Tacho

Jan 10, 2023

44:55

Episode guests

Laura Tacho

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

How to Defend Your Metrics

02:01

The Failure of Management Patterns in Engineering Teams

01:24

Low Expectations Are a Common Growth Pain for Startups

01:59

Engineering Leaders: Don't Be Afraid to Challenge

02:21

Introduction

2min

How Did You Get Your Start in Engineering?

3min

Is Animation Still a Pet Project?

2min

Are You Going Through Puberty?

5min

The Communication Patterns in a Company

2min

Engineering Leaders: Don't Be Afraid to Challenge

2min

Growing Pains Are Much Better to Have Than Shrinking Pains

2min

Low Expectations Are a Common Growth Pain for Startups

2min

Scaling Startups - How to Measure Anything

3min

10.

VP of Engineering - Should the Board Be Hearing About These Metrics?

4min

11.

Are You Using Tooling to Help Engineering Leaders Define Metrics?

2min

12.

Scaling a Startup or a Teenager?

2min

13.

Are You Keeping Track of the Dora Metrics?

3min

14.

Building on Dora Research

2min

15.

How Do You Defend Your Metrics?

2min

16.

Developer Satisfaction, Developer Experience - What Are the Right Pieces of That to Track?

4min

17.

Is Your Team Using Data to Find the Problems?

2min

18.

What's Your Course on Measuring Development Team Performance?

3min

As your startup scales it's not enough to know what to measure - you have to know WHEN to measure. Metrics that are important in one growth phase might not be in the next.

To help us make sense of it all, we invited Laura Tacho onto the show. Laura is a VP of Engineering & Leadership Coach, and an expert when it comes to startup growth and metrics, having worked with over 125 different companies.

We love this episode because it takes a team-first approach to metrics and then relates those metrics back to the growth of your organization. Whether you are a seasoned engineering leader or an IC trying to understand where your team is headed, this unique take on metrics will set your team up for success - and happiness - in 2023.

Show Notes
Measuring Development Team Performance course
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