Scaling from 10 to 40 people - a new mindset
Added 2022-09-09 00:29:13 +0000 UTCHey FreshMen,
Before we launched our game on Steam, we had just enough money to feed a team of 10 people.
Now we have enough money to grow to a team of 40 people.
But the question that is on my head is "How?"
Today I started to re-read one of my favorite books looking for answers: Scaling Up
The mindset I used to grow from 1 to 10 people will become obsolete, and I have to upgrade to a new mindset.
This means old ways of thinking will be abandoned to give space to new ways of thinking.
It's an exciting but at the same time scary opportunity.
One of our current weak points is that we recruit people too slow. We take like 2-3 weeks to recruit 1 person, but if are going to recruit 30 new people in 12 months, we need to be more effective at recruiting.
Besides that, it also takes too long until the recruits are up to speed.
I'll find the solution for these bottleneck problems in the books.
Stay tuned for more!
Cheers,
Oppai-Man
Comments
You've gotta first clearly define the new roles you want filled imo. Once you have that then for eg if you are going to hire 5 new animators, you select a head of animation from your current set of animators to head up that team. Whoever the lead is for that section would know best what is required to make the cut. You gotta figure out how many individual roles you want filled and how much new hires fill into each of these roles. Also its not gonna be a quick process at all imo
Iggydus
2022-09-14 12:55:27 +0000 UTCDo you have a book to recommend that worked for you? Right now I'm in learning mode.
OppaiMan
2022-09-09 18:25:25 +0000 UTCI run a team of roughly 40 people, and we scaled from about 6 at the start of 2021. You cannot sacrifice quality for quantity and that takes time to achieve. Now, I'm in a very different line of work than you, but each person I hired went through a very extensive interview process and took far longer than 3 weeks. Obviously, you need to enable your existing staff to assist in the interview, onboarding and ramping process. It's not easy, and it always changes. You also can't just throw bodies at a problem and expect results. How are you defining roles? What does success look like? How do you efficiently divide tasks? Hopefully, you're starting with a framework that defines these things and you can adjust as necessary.
Damian Scisci
2022-09-09 16:03:13 +0000 UTC
