The old adage says that everything in IT was discovered in 70s. There are tens of conferences, hundreds of courses and countless hours of materials on youtube on all aspects from JVM profiling to team setup. Despite abundance of knowledge, one rarely sees it being put to work.

I believe building great products is about finding the sweet spot between processes, structure and culture. Fortunately we can change all of those. Unfortunately, it takes time and you still need to deliver. During this talk I will share my take on how to build and scale product & engineering organisations, all from the point of view of an ex-software engineer turned product & engineering manager.