Working Together as Embedded Engineering Teams

What Is the Embedded Model?

Companies need specialists, and specialists often do their work with people outside their department. For example, all these specialties work with software engineers:

  • Designers
  • Product managers
  • Site reliability engineers (SREs)
  • Quality engineers (QA)
  • Application security engineers
  • Architects

Specialists often apply the most leverage when they work next to engineers. For example, an SRE might help a team improve its monitoring. They might help even more if they help the team to understand how to do monitoring themselves. A designer might work side by side with an engineering team. They design future features and collaborate on current features.