Scaling Without BS — Real-World Guide to Growing Your Teams

Growing teams sounds exciting — until it isn’t.

Suddenly, what worked yesterday no longer does.

• Decisions slow down
• Dependencies multiply
• Alignment becomes a daily struggle
• And frameworks? They help... until they hurt.

Scaling isn’t about adding people.
It’s about handling everything that comes next:
Invisible dependencies, messy communications, team conflicts, leadership gaps, and process bloat that creeps in when you aren’t watching.

This module is your practical guide to scaling without losing your mind — or your team’s soul.

What’s inside:

✅ Why scaling starts with business, not process
✅ How dependencies become your biggest risk — and how to manage them
✅ When frameworks like SAFe help — and when they make things worse
✅ What distributed teams really mean (hint: not just time zones)
✅ Why leadership must scale too — or everything breaks
✅ Real examples from 60 → 120 people org growth
✅ Honest, actionable advice — no buzzwords, no ivory tower consulting

If you are leading teams that are growing, struggling with coordination, or thinking about scaling smart — this is for you.

Part of the Human-Powered Engineering series.
No silver bullets. Just the stuff that works.