Operational Excellence - One Way Optimism is Constructed at Procore

Heidi Helfand is Director of Engineering Excellence at Procore Technologies. She is also the author of the book Dynamic Reteaming, the Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams and is an international keynote speaker in the software industry. Heidi recently lead the Operational Excellence event for Procore's R&D organization and offers up a deep dive here into the event, how it was produced and why. Event Blueprint In Procore R&D, we not only “build the software that builds the world,” but we also actively build our growing R&D organization. One example is our recent Operational... Read More

How to Handle Growth Through Dynamic Reteaming

Teams are dynamic, especially at fast-growing software companies like Procore. When you hire new people, your teams change. It’s inevitable - so you might as well get good at dynamic reteaming in order to make hiring new employees more seamless. I work in R&D to help teams get up to speed quickly when they form or help “reset” them when they change or transition. It only takes the addition or loss of one person to have a new team system. Each team system is unique and has a different dynamic, which changes with the addition or loss... Read More