Scaling Up Octopus - Lessons Learned

This SkillsCast is currently only available to registered attendees of YOW! September 2021

It will be freely available to all Skills Matter members once the YOW! September 2021 early-access window expires on December 16, 2021.

In January 2021, we set out to aggressively scale up the R&D team at Octopus. Starting at 39 people, we set a target of 95 and called ourselves crazy, expecting to achieve something more realistic. By August, we'd done it (whoa!) and are now consolidating this growth into a cohesive high-performance team (the hardest part). In this talk, I will share what we learned along the way; recognising when it's time to grow; setting the best conditions to accommodate growth; tools to help manage growth; mistakes we made and how we corrected on the fly; consolidating and making the growth worthwhile.

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