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You couldn't. No way you can delegate work to 2k engineers and tell them what to do for next 2 days. Physically impossible.
by betimsl 10y ago
You couldn't.
No way you can delegate work to 2k engineers and tell them what to do for next 2 days. Physically impossible.
- amelius 10y agoYes, Amdahl's law. I'd probably just use the 10 most productive engineers, and tell the others to prepare for testing :)
- betimsl 10y agoI don't want to sound bad, but again you couldn't do it. Say you have 2k engineers for next two days. Where do you begin?
- davidy123 10y agoDescribe the app generally, and leave it to them to form their own teams and solutions. Hackthon style, and hackathons at least usually have functional prototypes by their end.
- triplesec 10y agoYou are correct, but are taking these guys too seriously. They know about the mythical man month and are just riffing, for better or worse.
- philbarr 10y agoNot my problem - I'm their manager. If I have 2000 engineers I just make one of them Lead Dev and then shout at him when he hasn't been able to deliver after I gave him 1999 software engineers. What an idiot.
- Frenchgeek 10y agoSo Dilbert got promoted then demoted...