Yalta's set-up
A few core features of Yalta’s setup helped deliver high quality to Polestar at an extremely fast pace:
A recruitment machine: Polestar’s strong brand and the cutting-edge tech stack we had chosen together enabled us to attract talent. We built the capability to lead hundreds of interviews, recruit and onboard an average of 10 new team members every week, continuously for 4 months, rapidly expanding the organisation from 6 to 86 people and from 1 to 11 teams.
A platform team: one team was dedicated not to feature development but solely to resolving common issues, building reusable components (for authentication, security, monitoring etc.) and core services for developers. Although the team didn’t produce anything visible from an end-user viewpoint, it accelerated the efficiency of all other development teams by a 10x factor.
An ultra lean PMO: (Project Management Office) in charge of removing all political and logistical roadblocks for the teams, championing & securing the organization’s culture, and continuously giving Polestar a clear grip on cost, work allocation and development progress, without micro-managing.