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Weekly updates from each engineering team

Warren Gifford requested to merge engroles into master

Created by: nicksnyder

I have lost touch with what the engineering team is doing. It started with me not attending team syncs and it finished with removing eng updates to company meetings. I need to regain this context.

My needs:

  • I need to understand what each team’s goals and priorities are at any given point in time.
    • Why?
      • So I can ensure that we have the right goals and priorities (i.e., they are aligned with our others functions like sales/product).
  • I need to know what work each team is doing and how it connects back to those goals.
    • Why?
      • So I can hold the team accountable for doing work that is actually in service of those goals.
  • I need to know what pain teams and engineers are experiencing (e.g., gaps in ownership, gaps in infrastructure)
    • Why?
      • So I can ensure we are making the right investments, both in terms of people and in infrastructure.
  • Meta: I need to know/verify that the leader of each team knows all of the above too.
    • Why?
      • So I can have trust that our team leads are on top of things and doing a good job.
      • So I have a single source of truth for this information for each team.

What won’t work:

  • Me attending team syncs. This doesn’t scale well for me because they are fixed time blocks on my calendar and I will become a scheduling bottleneck across all teams (e.g., me attending all will mean none can happen concurrently). I also need to keep calendar time open to be available for candidate calls.
  • Adding eng slides back to company meeting. The level of detail that I need is not relevant to the entire company every week anymore.

This PR is my proposed solution: weekly updates from each engineering team. Campaigns -> @mrnugget Search -> @attfarhan Cloud -> @tsenart Web -> @lguychard Distribution -> @slimsag (this replaces our live sync on Mondays) until Gonzalo picks this up Code intel -> me

I know some of you aren't managers, but I still need this information and I need to you step up in the meantime as I hire :)

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