Achieving Operational Excellence Through Small Teams, with Melissa Leffler
Scaling Software Teams
English - July 30, 2019 09:00 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTech News News Education software technology careers programming development web programmer internet ruby on rails leadership Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Solving Your Elegant Puzzles, Part 2 with Will Larson
Melissa Leffler is the VP of Engineering at Drift, a chat software and conversational marketing platform based out of Boston that has grown a ton over the past few years. In the past 5 years, they’ve raised $107M in funding. They have 75 developer on staff and are showing no signs of slowing down in the next few years.
In this episode, we discuss how Drift changed Melissa’s mind on the power of small teams, how she uses incident response to guide her team, and the one question she asks to unlock the biggest problems in her department.
For notes and a full transcription of the episode, visit woventeams.com/30.Special Guest: Melissa Leffler.