Engineering capacity
What to do when the team you have is fully consumed by the system you already run: scoping R&D out, running two teams, and who owns the new product after it ships.
Guides in this topic
What the Year-End Slowdown Is Actually Good For
Three weeks of low capacity is either lost or it is the only window all year for discovery, audit and the decisions nobody has time for.
Running Internal and External Teams on the Same System
Collisions are not a people problem, they are a boundary problem. Where to draw the line between two teams so neither can break the other's release.
How EasyCep Added Two Products Without Pausing the Core
EasyHesap and then Garaj, built for the same client without their business pausing. How the boundary was drawn, and what the second engagement changed.
Who Owns the New Product After It Ships
Most contracts answer the code question and leave the other three implicit. The four ownership questions to settle before the first commit, not after launch.
Maintenance Load vs Roadmap: What Your Team Has Left
Before deciding you have no capacity, measure it. Four figures from your existing tools that show where the engineering week actually goes, and how to read them.
How to Scope an R&D Project So Your Team Stays Out of It
Most discovery phases run on your senior engineers' calendars. This is how to scope a project from documents and read access instead, and what that requires.
What to Hand an External Product Team on Day One
A day-one checklist written from the receiving end: what an external team actually needs, what slows them down when it is missing, and what to withhold.
Dedicated Team, Staff Augmentation or Product Partner
The three models look similar in a proposal and behave very differently in a sprint. Compared on supervision cost, ownership, and what happens when they leave.
Why the New Product Never Starts
It is rarely disagreement. It is that nothing in the week is structured to let it begin. Four reasons the roadmap item keeps moving right, and how to break each.
Your Engineering Team Has No Capacity. What Are the Options?
Hiring, pausing maintenance, renting developers or handing over a whole product. Four options, what each actually costs your existing team, and when each one fits.
Building a New Product Without Pulling Your Team Off
The arrangement that keeps your engineers on their own work: one interface agreed in writing, a separate deployment surface, and no seat in your standups.
How we would work on this
A second team for your next product
A product team that delivers the new build while your engineers maintain the existing system.
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Building the product for what comes next
We would rather deliver one product that holds up than three that have to be rebuilt. That standard is the same on every project, whatever its size.
Ali Boran GazelCEO