#55 - Rachel Potvin // VP Engineering @ Github

Find out how to maintain developer productivity 🧑‍💻 in a fast scaling team in this CTO podcast featuring Rachel Potvin, VP Engineering at GitHub (formerly of Google and Ubisoft). She shares how GitHub uses things like fanned out processes, design reviews, council meetings and DevSat surveys to stay on track even as the team 3Xed💥. Listen to find out: - Why you should focus on team 👥 productivity metrics (+which ones) - How they are using the ‘Layers of the System’ 🍔 approach to work out GitHub’s future architecture 🏛️ (SPOILER: It might not be entirely monolithic forever) - How they prioritised build 🏗️ queues to minimise context switching🤹 Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/55-rachel-potvin-vp-engineering-at-github