Pat Cullen, Former SVPE, Carrot Fertility, sat down with me to share his principles and practices for building Teams & Products. At Carrot Fertility, Pat grew the Technology team from 3 employees to over 75, spearheading Engineering, Information Security, Data Privacy, Product, Program Management, and Data functions. Pat used the "Rule of 3" framework to share his learnings across Planning/Roadmapping, Building Engineering teams and cultures, and Ensuring Execution.4:20 Overall approachStart from a place of curiosity and empathy. Understand your stakeholders' needs/points of view.Reflect on your individual beliefs/points of view.As long as you have the right people, there are many different processes that can be adapted to suit the needs of your organization.7:50 Planning/RoadmappingAnnual PlanningQuarterly PlanningWeekly/Bi-weekly Planning12:40 Building Engineering team and culture for first ten/next couple of dozen/scaling to hundreds of membersTechnical SkillsAccountabilityTeam Cultivation/Communication21:08 Ensuring Execution/Processes & SystemsEvolution (Resistance->Over-adoption->Enabling too abstractly->Pragmatic middle ground)Minimum Viable Compliance (Weekly, Bi-weekly/Monthly, and Quarterly updates)Flexible Team Dynamics (Daily level)

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