006. Become Less Necessary

Your team scales, but you don't.

Congratulations! You've hired an excellent group of engineers and onboarded them successfully. Work is well prioritized and everyone is staying productive. Features are underway... and yet... things don't seem to be going faster.

As your team scales up, you don’t. If you find yourself with a backlog of questions to answer and PRs to approve, the bottleneck might be you. Here’s how to get out of your own way and let your team succeed.