61: The great productivity explosion

About this episode

Mitchell and Gavin discuss the impact of new developers on productivity and team dynamics at SixSides, alongside preparations for Mitch's wedding leave.

In this episode, Mitchell and Gavin unpack the first full week with new developers on the SixSides team, the sudden jump in productivity and stress, the push to document processes properly, fresh leads coming through the door, and how they are preparing the business for Mitch’s wedding leave. Links Mobbin - https://mobbin.com/ ui.sh - https://ui.sh/ Chapters (00:00) - Intro, wedding nerves, and SixSides positioning (06:44) - The first full week with new developers (08:50) - Mobile app fixes and the first new release (11:47) - Dashboard work, Slack alerts, checklist items, and notifications (15:12) - The first dashboard signup and tracking growth (19:26) - Marketing website, docs, and design struggles (28:54) - Building SOPs and adjusting to team life (33:57) - Leads, Project Earth, and the bootstrap sales strategy (41:10) - Team culture, Slack emojis, and setting up events in minutes (46:21) - Handling Mitch’s leave and documenting development processes In this episode, we cover: Mitch’s final week before the wedding, and how the team is handling his leave The first full week of new developers working on SixSides Why hiring people can increase your workload before it reduces it…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mitchell, Gavin

Topics covered

• productivity
• team dynamics
• software development
• process documentation
• marketing strategy
• team culture

Keywords

• productivity explosion
• new developers
• process documentation
• marketing leads
• team culture
• software updates

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SixSides

Products: Mobbin, ui.sh

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