# Getting a Team Back on Track

DevFeed: [Getting a Team Back on Track](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/getting-a-team-back-on-track-2036.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//getting-a-team-back-on-track>)

Published: 2018-07-25T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [Product Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/product-management.md>), [Tech Debt](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tech-debt.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/complexity.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [onboarding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/onboarding.md>), [product-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-management.md>), [tech-debt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech-debt.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how an Engineering Manager helped restore a struggling team that faced staff departures, excessive pressure, an overloaded backlog, technical debt, stakeholder demands, and substantial domain complexity. It argues that operating at a team's throughput limit damages the team, while reducing parallel work streams can improve productivity, team happiness, and stakeholder trust.

## Source excerpt

Sometimes, an important team that's part of an otherwise healthy company culture starts tanking and the people on the team get frustrated and even quit. In this article, I want to share what I learned when I started to manage a team -- referred to as the R Team from here on out -- that had huge problems when I took over as Engineering Manager, as well as explain how I got it back on track.