Expert Talk: How to Deal with Hypergrowth • Lena Reinhard & Blake Walters • GOTO 2022

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted Read the full transcription of this interview here: Lena Reinhard - Leadership Coach & Consultant Blake Walters - Senior Director of Engineering at CircleCI DESCRIPTION While hypergrowth means that a company is on the right track, this phase comes with challenges at all levels of the organization. Lena Reinhard, leadership coach & consultant, and Blake Walters, senior director of engineering at CircleCI, share best practices based on their own experiences, navigating the ambiguity that comes along with these hypergrowth phases in a company’s life cycle. Learn how to get through this phase successfully, what tools and tips can support the company and what hypergrowth means for the software engineering team. TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:10 What is hypergrowth? 09:47 Getting the context right for hypergrowth 15:58 Technical decision-making during hypergrowth 23:47 Scaling yourself 38:43 Reassessing impact & delivery 47:39 How to support teams & people during hypergrowth 51:37 Outro RECOMMENDED BOOKS Frank Slootman • Amp It Up • Aaron Ross & Jason Lemkin • From Impossible to Inevitable • Scott Hallman • The 7 Success Drivers to HyperGrowth • Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns • Lee, Wickens, Liu & Boyle • Designing for People • Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • #Hybergrowth #Scaling #ScalingYourself #ScalingYourBusiness #LenaReinhard #BlakeWalters #Teams #Programming Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.