Best Practices for Emerging Companies

Are you striving to build a world-class engineering, development or product team at scale? 

James Reynolds, Chief Technology & Product Officer at Backstage, and Jason Jaynes, COO of eCatholic, joined Steve Semelsberger, Testlio's CEO, to discuss scaling systems, maturing processes, and building a culture of quality through different phases of organizational growth. 

We covered topics like:

• Recruiting and hiring for excellence; use the global opportunity to your advantage and don't be afraid to look outside of the U.S. for talent. James and Jason share their experiences on their search for global talent.
• Creating and retaining world-class engineering cultures; put high focus and thought into career development for a higher employee retention rate. James and Jason talk about their respective company cultures and its positive impacts.
• Balancing engineering speed and quality; have well-defined expectations and processes in place. Jason shares tips on operational processes, and James explains his design-forward engineering philosophy.
• Aligning your investments and resources for quality; explore different technologies that can produce value for your overall development and deployment process. Jason shares about his positive experience with two specific tools that tie seamlessly into their CI/CD pipeline.