Smooth is Fast
SaaS Eng Talk by Sidu Ponnappa and Aakash Dharmadhikari, Co-founders of a stealth startup and ex-Gojek
This is an interesting talk by Sidu and Aakash sharing their experience scaling products development. When a company scales, it very often slows down. Attempts to make it go faster often fail. Why is that? They challenge our understanding of colloquial terms like team, slow, fast. They talk about how focus, fear and turbulence relate to scaling. This is a must-watch if you’re an engineering leader tasked with scaling up.
Here’s the list of books mentioned in the talk:
The Phoneix Project by Gene Kim
Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald G Reinertsen
Managing the Design Factory by Donald Reinertsen
The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
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