Power Moves: How to Scale Your Dev Team
Your product’s gaining traction, the market’s heating up, and your roadmap is packed. You need more hands on deck, but simply adding headcount won’t cut it. Scaling a development team successfully requires next-level leadership skills.
“This isn’t about adding bodies, this isn’t about building a fiefdom: this is about creating winning products,” says Felix Wetzel , vice president of product management at Cielo Talent . “Every time you introduce a new player it changes the dynamics, so be sure you only bring people in that make the entire team better.”
For tech leaders, the stakes couldn’t be higher. More than half (58%) of tech leaders are struggling to fill essential roles, according to IBM’s 2024 survey of tech CxOs. But scaling a team that delivers both immediate results and sustainable growth requires far more than recruitment. It demands a strategic approach — one that aligns team dynamics with evolving goals, meets shifting market demands, and drives innovation over the long term.
Scaling a development team demands bold leadership, sharp strategy, and a focus on creating a powerhouse of collaboration and innovation that thrives under pressure.?
To find out how teams can best scale, we asked the experts: Felix Wetzel at Cielo Talent , Chris L. , Jonathan Berg from Herrmann , Trevor Fry of RAD Management Co , Adam Gordon of Poetry - the most comprehensive suite of AI solutions in talent acquisition , author Douglas Squirrel , and Maria Clara Vallés and Jonathan Ortiz, MBA from X-Team.
They weighed in on why and when to scale a development team — and how to do it successfully.
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