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This New Way

Albert Strasheim, CTO at Rippling, on Embracing Rapid Iteration and Setting Goals for Accountability

May 23, 2024
Albert Strasheim, CTO at Rippling, discusses hands-on leadership, setting actionable goals, and embracing rapid iteration to drive company success. He highlights the importance of efficient project management, prioritizing bug fixes, and the future of HR software. Albert's insights provide valuable strategies for leadership and team dynamics.
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Quick takeaways

  • Embracing rapid iteration and balancing visible feature development with behind-the-scenes improvements is crucial for engineering leaders.
  • Being hands-on as a leader involves actively contributing to problem-solving and decision-making, not micro-managing the team.

Deep dives

Key Points on Building High-Performing Engineering Organizations

Albert Shossheim discusses various innovative strategies for building high-performing engineering organizations. He emphasizes the importance of being hands-on and having a deep understanding of the work being done within the team. Rapid iteration and balancing visible feature development with behind-the-scenes improvements are crucial challenges that engineering leaders face. Albert introduces the concept of 'quality weeks' to focus on enhancing quality and internal processes alongside new feature development.

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