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# **SHOW NOTES:**

- Aligning Engineering and Business Goals: Invest in tracking metrics to identify / meet long-term business-building goals w/ Jessica McKellar (00:43)
- How to align metrics with overall, long-term business strategy w/ Andrew Lau (4:56)
- Planning Team Topologies and Organizational Resources: the transition between PMF & scale-up w/ Samir Naik (12:12)
- Approaching org design & planning during periods of hypergrowth w/ Surabhi Gupta (18:45)
- How to do an effective reorg w/ Aaron Erickson and Mike Tria (24:41)
- Strategic Thinking: Organizing engineering by strategic themes & complete units of value w/ Emad Elwany (30:12)
- The transition from a large unified eng team to embedding experts and building specialized teams catered to specific customer personas w/ Scott Woody (37:26)

## LINKS AND RESOURCES

- [Becoming a better strategic contributor & business leader
with Jessica McKellar](https://elc.community/home/podcasts/becoming-a-better-strategic-contributor-and-business-leader-jessica-mckellar-pilot)
- [Navigating 2024: Engineering management principles to tackle the unknowns & challenges ahead with Andrew Lau](https://elc.community/home/podcasts/navigating-2024-engineering-management-principles-to-tackle-the-unknowns-and-challenges-ahead-andrew-lau-jellyfish)
- [How eng orgs (and careers) evolve through hyper-growth with Samir Naik](https://elc.community/home/podcasts/how-eng-orgs-and-careers-evolve-through-hyper-growth-samir-naik-plaid)
- [Hypergrowth, Scaling & Org Design with Surabhi Gupta](https://elc.community/home/podcasts/hypergrowth-scaling-and-org-design-surabhi-gupta-robinhood)
- [How to Do an Effective Reorg with Aaron Erickson and Mike Tria](https://elc.community/home/videos/how-to-do-an-effective-reorg-2022-12-19)
- [Organizing eng by strategic themes / complete units of value & consensus building to drive velocity with Emad Elwany](https://elc.community/home/podcasts/organizing-eng-by-strategic-themes-complete-units-of-value-and-consensus-building-to-drive-velocity-emad-elwany-lexion)
- [Rapidly operating early-stage engineering at global scale, mapping eng workflows to personas & pivoting pricing / business models with Scott Woody](https://elc.community/home/podcasts/rapidly-operating-early-stage-engineering-at-global-scale-mapping-eng-workflows-to-personas-and-pivoting-pricing-business-models-scott-woody-metronome)

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### **This episode wouldn’t have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:**

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Jerry Li - Co-Host

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In Part 3 of the Top 10 Challenges series, we’re addressing the biggest org-level challenges that eng leaders face. We’ve compiled conversations from past podcasts and conference sessions that cover org-related topics, such as aligning engineering & business goals, team topologies & org resourcing, and thinking strategically. This episode features a slate of top eng leaders with valuable insight to share: Jessica McKellar @ Pilot, Andrew Lau @ Jellyfish, Samir Naik @ Plaid, Former VPE @ Robinhood Surabhi Gupta, Aaron Erickson @ NVIDIA, Mike Tria @ Gusto, Emad Elwany @ Docusign, and Scott Woody @ Metronome.

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