Nick Martin, Principal Engineer at Indigo Agriculture - Alignment, Optimizing ROI and Team Growth

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Nick Martin is a Principal Software Engineer at Indigo Agriculture and long-time fixer of things. He previously worked at Tapjoy, where he helped build a premier adtech platform capable of handling billions of requests per day. Nick details his steps to fix broken teams, create alignment in organizations, optimize organizations for finding the highest ROI projects and so much more. We talk in-depth about the components that go into successful teams and the four stages of team building - forming, storming, norming and performing. How do teams being split or new engineers being hired impact these stages? Nick offers thoughts on achieving sustainable growth and the tradeoffs that come from increasing headcount. We trade ideas on the tech lead position and individual contribution v. management paths. We also get Nick’s take on engineering organizations in the post-COVID world. Per Nick’s recommendations, check out Eager Labs (https://www.eagerconnect.com/) and The Manager’s Path (https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897) for more on building great engineering organizations.