What's your philosophy in working with an engingeering team?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

My philoshipy to build a high perfomance team is to create a bottoms up culture.
By empowring my team members the autonomy of solving the customer problem which
they deem fit at scale, they not only grow but also innovate on things if they
don't like the status quo.
For e.g. At Auctane, one of my team members was not satisfied with the approach
proposed for doing a sync of data from Microservices to monolith. He did a deep
dive on how this can be improved, he proposed Kafka as a best fit stack we can
use. I encouraged him to do a POC, come up with pros and cons. Then I set up a
meeting with my director and did a POC, I talked about potential impact was not
just for our team but could be implemented org wide as well. 
We implemented this new technology on the project he was working on, documenting
all the learnings he discovred and released to prod. Once we were satisfied that
it works for us, I arranged for a show/tell session for other engineeries who
had to solve a similar issue, this developer gave a techtalk on how it was
implemented, challenges we faced etc. Other teams adopted this tech as well. The
result of this was that as an Org. we could save close to 15% of dev cycle by
standardizing and implementing a new tech. My employee also took this
opportunity to learn and grow at the same time.

Anonymous · Answer

My philosophy is to trust the team with technical capabilities and provide them
clear requirements as flows, personas and UX. I also like to challenge design
for accessibility, scalability and ease of use. Biggest focus is grooming
sessions where we capture every details in the User story as well as daily scrum
meeting where I like to see the development and have opportunity to provide
feedback.

What's your philosophy in working with an engingeering team?

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