Discuss your experience leading a team. What were the challenges and achievements?

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Situation:
When I inherited a legacy testbench, I noticed it was highly disorganized and
unstructured. This created multiple issues, including difficulty in debugging,
lack of controllability for scaling, and poor readability. One major bottleneck
was that the entire IP relied on a single configuration class, making it hard to
manage or extend.
Task:
Although restructuring the testbench was not part of my immediate job
responsibilities, I saw the long-term impact of these inefficiencies. I took
ownership of the problem and decided to re-architect the testbench structure to
improve modularity, maintainability, and reusability.
Action:
I took a couple of days to analyze the structure and made the following
improvements:
 * Split the      single configuration class into multiple per-block config
   classes, improving      modularity.
 * Created a      common library file     to house parameters, commonly used
   functions, and shared classes, ensuring      consistency across the
   testbench.
 * Added      control knobs     for better configurability and debugging.

Result:
 * The new structure allowed us      to control configurations of individual
   blocks independently, making it easier to scale.
 * Debugging became much more      efficient as we could quickly pinpoint issues
   to specific classes.
 * Reusability      increased significantly, as block-level configurations could
   now be leveraged for both      block-level and full-IP testbenches.
 * Overall, these changes      enhanced productivity and streamlined testbench
   development.

Discuss your experience leading a team. What were the challenges and achievements?

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