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> """ Generally, this is done in three ways: • Start and stop projects. • Reorg. • Hire, or fire, the leadership team """ I would hope some management tools wo
by humanrebar 9y ago
> """
Generally, this is done in three ways:
• Start and stop projects.
• Reorg.
• Hire, or fire, the leadership team
"""
I would hope some management tools would be unique to the industry of the product. These could be applied to literally any organization.
In software, you could, for example, pick an item from the Joel Test and provide carrots and sticks to encourage success in this. And there are plenty of other strategic technical goals you can encourage, like deterministic deployments or engagement with key open source projects.
- slgeorge 9y agoIt's a question of abstraction, at the start of the article she notes that she's run teams of up to 400 people. At that size there are layer-on-layer of people whose job it is manage divisions/groups/teams of people. The person at higher levels of some pyramid has to think very carefully about dropping down into the detail and consequently side-lining some levels of their management chain.