How To Scale a Development Team

As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems. An equally important challenge in a growing business is scaling your development team. Most technology companies hit a wall with dev team scalability somewhere around ten developers. Having navigated this process fairly successfully over the last few years at Heroku, this post will present what I see as the stages of life in a development team, and the problems and potential solutions at each stage. Stage 1: Homebrewing In the beginning, your company is 2 - 4 guys/gals working in someone’s living room, a cafe, or a coworking space. Communication and coordination is easy: with just a few people sitting right next to each other, everyone knows what everyone else is working on. Founders and early employees tend to be very self-directed so the need for management is nearly non...

Full article: http://adam.heroku.com/past/2011/4/28/scaling_a_developme...

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@poison_dv » 05 Apr '12, 5am
Scaling development team. must read - [link]
@MikePeritore » 04 Apr '12, 12am
pretty cool article I stumbled on re: startup teams and scaling them [link]
@IamCharlieCowan » 16 Mar '12, 7pm
“@chrisodavies: How To Scale a Development Team: by @hirodusk [link] FYI @aunitt @rob_lambert nice post!
@shobyabdi » 16 Mar '12, 7pm
Great article by @hirodusk. Nice read for consultancies looking to get into the Development game [link]
@shobyabdi » 16 Mar '12, 7pm
RT @chrisodavies: How To Scale a Development Team: by @hirodusk [link] #Heroku #Startup
@chrisodavies » 16 Mar '12, 7pm
How To Scale a Development Team: by @hirodusk [link] #Heroku #Startup
@adamse » 16 Mar '12, 5pm
RT @adron: [link] <- Scaling teams, this is something every startup needs to give a GOOD read of.
@adron » 16 Mar '12, 5pm
[link] <- Scaling teams, this is something every startup needs to give a GOOD read of.
@accujazz » 08 Apr '12, 5am
Scaling development teams: [link]
@genebike » 16 Mar '12, 8pm
RT @chrisodavies: How To Scale a Development Team: by @hirodusk [link] #Heroku #Startup