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I don't get the meetings bulletpoint. There is no way a startup can compare to the meetings load of a "Big Boy" company. I have always marked the transition fro
by dkhenry 10y ago
I don't get the meetings bulletpoint. There is no way a startup can compare to the meetings load of a "Big Boy" company. I have always marked the transition from "Start-up" to "Enterprise" by how much time the company spends in meetings. Smaller companies make more decisions by force of persona, and larger ones have endless meetings to make sure no one feels left out of a minute decision.
We have even codified it into a named activity in the software development process, bike shedding
- mwfunk 10y agoAnother way to look at it is that the activity being done in the big company is usually going to be much larger scale and affect many more people than the activity being done at the startup- those small groups of startup people pushing through ideas by force of personality/lack of resistance can easily be engaging in just as much bikeshedding, it's just that in a smaller org there's fewer people and lower stakes. Smaller orgs are by definition going to be more agile than larger orgs, but that doesn't grant them more wisdom, just the ability to execute bad decisions more quickly. The only way to avoid bad organizations is to stay out of them, regardless of size IME.