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Too many technologies is a problem so teams shouldn't be able to choose anything. My wider team is 50 people made up of ~8 smaller teams. We have some flexibili

by rb808 10y ago

Too many technologies is a problem so teams shouldn't be able to choose anything. My wider team is 50 people made up of ~8 smaller teams. We have some flexibility to choose technology with the result of our new product: * Core system JVM * Python wrapper for web service API * C# scraping calling the web service * JS/node webserver calling the C# layer As a result its slow, messy and difficult to maintain. Would be nice if managers prevented small teams from choosing any technical choice they felt like.

yawz 10y ago
> Would be nice if managers prevented small teams from choosing any technical choice they felt like. That requires knowledge, experience, and good technical & business judgement. Unfortunately not everyone has these qualities. Refusing something simply for keeping things as they are is not a sustainable strategy in technology. Decisions have to be made smart, and they have to contribute to the incremental improvements.