9-2: Headcount Planning
Model the exact cost of hiring velocity, onboarding drag, and optimal IC-to-Manager ratios.
🎯 What You'll Learn
- ✓ Calculate Recruiter friction
- ✓ Manage onboarding velocity drops
- ✓ Execute span-of-control models
The Onboarding Velocity Dip
When you hire 5 new engineers, your team's output does not increase—it plummets. Every new hire requires 2-3 months of intense mentoring from your most senior, productive engineers.
This "Brooks's Law" manifestation means a poorly timed hiring surge just before a critical product launch guarantees the launch will fail. Engineers are pulled off features to explain the codebase architecture to the new hires.
Optimal headcount planning spaces out onboarding cohorts and explicitly factors a 20% velocity tax on senior engineering output for a full 90 days following a hire.
The number of direct reports one Engineering Manager handles.
The temporary velocity drop from senior engineers mentoring new staff.
Execute a Span-of-Control audit across your technical departments.
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Lesson 1: The Onboarding Velocity Dip
When you hire 5 new engineers, your team's output does not increase—it plummets. Every new hire requires 2-3 months of intense mentoring from your most senior, productive engineers.This "Brooks's Law" manifestation means a poorly timed hiring surge just before a critical product launch guarantees the launch will fail. Engineers are pulled off features to explain the codebase architecture to the new hires.Optimal headcount planning spaces out onboarding cohorts and explicitly factors a 20% velocity tax on senior engineering output for a full 90 days following a hire.
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