Celebrating the growth of your team
Cultivating a growth-promoting enterprise environment for serverless is not a solo effort. It involves several teams—engineering, products, people partners, recruitment, etc.—working toward a unified goal. As teams of engineers grow, differences in opinion, complacency, and conflicts can arise. The role of a serverless enabler as a gardener becomes essential to nip such disputes in the bud by acting as a listener and mediator and finding quick resolutions to steady the serverless ship.
As your serverless team or teams begin to showcase their early achievements and little victories, ensure these are well communicated within the organization, especially to business stakeholders. In “How Do You Bring Serverless Awareness to Business Stakeholders?” on page 52 you saw how engineering teams can help stakeholders understand serverless technology and its benefits. It’s vital to celebrate technology victories together—especially when the technology is serverless!
Table 2-1 shows how business stakeholders’ views of serverless evolve along with the engineering achievements of the serverless team.
Table 2-1. Mapping team outcomes to stakeholder opinions
| Engineering outcome | Stakeholder view |
| Proof of concept (PoC) finished and demonstrated faster and cheaper than before. | Beginning to trust the team. |
| Minimum viable product (MVP) completed and delivered. | The confidence in the team grows. |
| First serverless application deployed to production to serve customers. Lower operational | The team earns respect. |
| and maintenance costs. | |
As serverless engineers and teams grow, you will have internal experts on the many factors of the serverless ecosystem. This is incredibly enriching for the organization. Depending on the engineers’ backgrounds and interests, they may become proficient in more than one skill—a sign of a true serverless engineer in a multidisciplinary serverless team.
