Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Octopus • Mike Noonan • YOW! 2021

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2021. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Mike Noonan - VP of Engineering at Octopus Deploy @OctopusDeploy RESOURCES https://twitter.com/mr_manoonan https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-noonan-6b3109151 ABSTRACT 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. [...] RECOMMENDED BOOKS Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/2Yahf9U Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know • https://amzn.to/3pZuHsQ Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ Michael Jackson • Software Requirements and Specifications • https://amzn.to/3ql2T14 Geoffrey West • Scale • http://amzn.to/3eKMbpc Donald G. Reinertsen • The Principles of Product Development Flow • https://amzn.to/3hJ2Ye2 https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Complexity #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #Tech #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareTechnology #SoftwareCycles #ProgrammingCycles #DesignPatterns #MikeNoonan #Microservices #Scale #YOWcon Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1