Scaling Engineering Orgs Without Losing Velocity

How do you grow the team without slowing the work?

Thursday, September 17 | 4:00–5:00 PM PT | Online

Scaling an engineering organization is supposed to create more capacity. But too often, it creates more coordination, more handoffs, more meetings, and slower decisions.

The real challenge begins when the team is no longer small enough for informal communication to carry the work: when leaders need to add structure without adding drag, create ownership without creating silos, and keep teams moving while the organization becomes more complex.

For engineering leaders, this is where the conversation changes. It is no longer just about hiring more people. It is about building the operating system that helps a larger organization continue to make good decisions, ship meaningful work, and stay close to the craft.

We’ll discuss

1. What breaks as engineering teams scale: How leaders identify the first signs that communication, ownership, decision-making, or delivery rhythms are no longer working.
2. Adding structure without slowing teams down: How to introduce process, planning, roles, and rituals that create clarity without becoming bureaucracy.
3. Maintaining velocity through growth and change: How leaders protect delivery momentum during hypergrowth, reorgs, acquisitions, product transformation, or multi-site expansion.
4. Keeping ownership clear as complexity grows: How teams avoid duplicated work, unclear accountability, and decision bottlenecks as more people and functions enter the system.
5. Staying connected to the craft: How engineering leaders maintain technical judgment, product intuition, and credibility as their role becomes more organizational.

Hosted by

Josh Anderson, Field CTO @ Revelo

Josh Anderson has spent 25 years building and scaling engineering and product organizations, from 5-person teams to 100+ engineers across multiple sites.

He has led through hypergrowth, M&A integration, and product transformation, and brings a practical leadership perspective grounded in both organizational scale and hands-on technical craft.

Join this conversation with engineering leaders working through one of the most persistent questions in engineering leadership:

How do we scale the organization without losing the speed, clarity, and ownership that made the team effective in the first place?