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We went from 1 engineer (me) to 4 last year. So I'm in the 2-10 stage. I coded prototype and first X customers, which has become literally 20X in the past year.
by cabaalis 8y ago
We went from 1 engineer (me) to 4 last year. So I'm in the 2-10 stage. I coded prototype and first X customers, which has become literally 20X in the past year. I still code most of the time, and the primary problem I am encountering is being willing to transition technically difficult aspects of the product. This has to happen, as I am finding myself becoming a huge bottleneck.
- jgh 8y agoCongrats on the success! Yes definitely replace yourself sooner than later or you will regret it when you're dealing with company stuff and you need to fix a bug at the same time!
- awad 8y agoThe old cliche to work your way out of a job really resonated with me when I made this transition. It is natural to want to take on a task for yourself and to think you're doing your team a favor by shielding them from details you have a mastery on. But, once you get into the mindset of enabling everyone by focusing on training and knowledge sharing, you find that people are far more capable than perhaps you give them credit for and in fact do them a disservice by not giving them more reign. Worst case, you get a bit of sanity back from being less of a bottleneck. It may not seem like it, but most of the time the people applying tight time pressures are ourselves (customers also have more patience than we give them credit for), and it is generally worth it to invest in teaching someone to fish, as it were.