Heidi Helfand
Heidi Helfand is the author of Dynamic Reteaming, which outlines practical strategies for orchestrating successful team and company org changes. Her work is informed by more than 20 years in the tech industry at notable companies like AppFolio, Procore, and Expertcity/GoToMeeting.
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Team & Organization Skills
Transparency in reorganization design helps leaders identify structural errors and increases employee engagement by involving them early in the design process.
"I really like it when there's transparency in reorgs. There's a story in my book from Christian Lima at Spotify about how they reorged a large infrastructure team. They visualized it on whiteboards an..."
Empowering teams to self-identify when they have become too large allows for more effective restructuring based on actual delivery cadence.
"In other cases at the team level, maybe you have a retrospective and you determine, 'Hey, I think we'd be a bit more effective and we'd be able to deliver at a better cadence if we were two teams inst..."