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# Growing Your Team: Strategies for Expansion or Re-Org in Engineering


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 18, 2024
- **Time:** 14:50–15:20 (30 min)
- **Room:** Airstream (120)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Description

During this session we'll go through the scaling challenges for the engineering organisation.

I'll share the insights from my experience working as a VP Engineering (product company, with the size around 200 people), and how we successfully moved from functional to cross-functional teams within two months.

A lot of important questions will come during the transformation.
- How to align the software architecture with the team structure?
- Who will own what, what’s the responsibility area for the team
- What's the best team size
- Where we can find the leaders for each future team
- What are the functions of a tech lead and the engineering manager?
- Escalation and operational process

Happy to share my experience!

## Speaker

### [Alex Ischenko](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@alex-ischenko)

VP Engineering @ Elopage | Speaker


## Related talks at this congress

- [Reshaping Tech Organizations for Efficient Scaling of Agile Practices – Lessons from the Field](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/277-reshaping-tech) — Jens Happe
- [(Re)vitalizing your engineering culture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/301-re-vitalizing-your) — Daniel Schniepp
- [Mastering Multiple Engineering Leadership Roles for Maximum Impact](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/8-mastering-multiple) — Elenaa Grahovac
- [Open Source Professionals as a Key for Project Success](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/79-open-source) — Ludmila Tomperi