Listen "Building Eng at Impira with Anand Mariappan"
Episode Synopsis
Anand Mariappan, VPE, Impira, shares his experience inheriting and running the engineering team and adapting to remote work. He also provides an overview of his 3Ps framework for enabling people to do their best work, by equipping them with the right processes and a clear sense of purpose.4:00 [Objectives] Focus on time to market9:30 [Company Values] Empathy (Virtual Water-cooler/Virtual Coffee and other ways to stay connected with the team)14:10 [Engineering Values] Transparency (The team that sees reality the best wins - Jim Dethmer)16:08 [Engineering Values] Autonomy (Enabling the team to reach their full potential)21:00 [Hiring] Two-way (Company and Candidate) evaluation for fit27:05 [Engineering Levels] Career Ladder (Working with the team to identify desired Engineering values & traits at each level)31:25 [Team Structure] Frameworks for team structure (Product Versions, Use cases, User scenarios, Product Functionality) and resource allocation (Feature Dev/Foundation/Moonshot ideas, Core Product/New initiatives/Moonshot ideas)37:35 [Architectural Decisions] (Leveraging Brain Trust from Pixar)42:25 [On-boarding] 3-4 person team (Manager, Engineering mentor, Engineering buddy, Cross-functional buddy)50:00 [Testing] Balancing product quality expectations, time to market and available resources53:10 [Adding Capacity vs Optimizing Software] Focus on understanding the bottlenecks and starting with optimization
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