Product & UX are your scaling bottlenecks

Stop hiring engineers until you’ve got enough people to define the work.

Typically when companies want to accelerate development speed, they hire more engineers. Most of the time this is the wrong thing to do, or at least the wrong thing to do first.

Hiring more engineers is the right thing to do when you have a lot of work to be done and you’re highly confident in what you are doing and why you are doing it at a detailed level. Product Managers and UX designers are the front end of the process that define at a detailed level, what the team will actually be working on. Unless you have enough people working on definition with enough lead time, you’ll either have the team working on low value stuff or reworking things they’ve built with only high level direction.

Petersen Product Strategy can help you to design a product team hiring plan that is right for your business what will support your scaling goals. We’ll talk through when and what type of team leader to hire, PM and UX to dev ratios, hiring lead times, and salary planning. If you’re ready to start, we can help write job descriptions and teach you a hiring process that will bring in the best candidates.

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