Why Coaching?

Frequently companies have talented developers who find themselves in a position where they have to lead a team of engineers, but don't have anywhere near the experience that more seasoned managers have making sure there is transparency, predictability and reliability in development. Like programming skills, it takes a while to build up excellent processes for managing an engineering team and the associated infrastructure.

Left to their own device, they rarely succeed in transitioning into a leadership position. It creates a big execution risk for the company.

Coaching solves this problem by pairing smart engineers who find themselves in charge of engineers with engineering mentors who have over a decade experience managing development teams.

Coaching is a 3 month crash course in creating a transparent engineering organization that delivers products on time.

Three Pillars of Success

Our comprehensive approach spans all areas below or can be narrowed down to a specific domain for a more focused engagement.

Team

Effective Recruiting
Organizational Structure
Skill-set Analysis
Compensation
Motivation & Retention
Performance
Mentoring

In early stage startups, young engineers are put into a leadership position but lack the knowledge and support to succeed as technical managers. By mentoring them directly, we facilitate their growth into successful leaders. In turn this ensures that your team can operate autonomously for some time.

As your company grows, it's important to assess that the right technical skills are in place. An appropriate organizational structure, an effective recruiting strategy and a competitive approach to compensation are all tools that we can create and tailor to your company.

We work with you to ensure that your engineering organization is sound and operates at peak performance.

Process

Agile Coaching
Development Process
Product Roadmap
Planning
Metrics

We bring the right level of process to make your product development lifecycle efficient and transparent to everyone. We create the structure that enables you to take your ideas and deliver quality software to your users in a predictable and reliable manner.

Our pragmatic approach to Agile development ensures the you'll be ready in times of significant growth without burdening your team today.

Technology

Research & Analysis
Architecture
Code Audit
Technical Roadmap
Scaling
Security
Technical Diligence

If left unchecked, certain technology choices can quickly become a legacy, dragging down the velocity of your development team, or worse, compromising your product launch.

We can review your architecture, code base and deployment practices to ensure that they'll meet the business needs.