CTO checklist: scaling your engineering team

Scaling an engineering team involves more than just adding new members; it requires strategies to ensure productivity, communication, and culture remain intact. Key points include recognizing the need for scaling, hiring quality talent over quantity, boosting communication through effective tools and protocols, preserving team culture with a robust onboarding process and regular team-building activities, upgrading infrastructure with scalable tech stacks and automation, prioritizing training and development, and staying adaptable to evolving needs.