> Once your engineering org gets to be a certain size the benefits you can obtain by investing in making all your engineers slightly more productive start to sw

> Once your engineering org gets to be a certain size the benefits you can obtain by investing in making all your engineers slightly more productive start to swamp the slight gains that one team might get from doing things their own, slightly different way. I like to think of this idea as group vs. individual velocity. Yes, you personally might be able to go faster by introducing new technologies - but everyone else is slowed down by having to learn it. Knowing which few of these technologies will be an overall win is the tricky bit.