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Right, but then what's the right manager:IC ratio? Think of it more as a tradeoff and a design decision. How many managers do you want in an organization? (Assu
by ebiester 7y ago
Right, but then what's the right manager:IC ratio? Think of it more as a tradeoff and a design decision. How many managers do you want in an organization? (Assume managers make 5% more than your senior engineers.) Too many and your organization gets top heavy.
Now, I think one right solution might be to have non-technical administrative assistants for the department. My organization has three, and we still have work for more.
Finally, there's always more work to be done for any organization.
- jrochkind1 7y agoWell, if there's nobody with the responsibility/authority and sufficient time to do the kind of work we're talking about (and who is evaluated and promoted based on doing it well), it sounds like the tradeoff was not the right one if the goal is producing a good product. Because that work needs to be done, to produce a quality product (whatever you are producing). Over my career, I have increasingly tended to believe that at the majority of organizations the goals decision-makers are acting upon are not in fact about producing a good product, for whatever that product is. That is certainly one explanation. It's not that they are obtuse about what it takes to create a good product, they just have other priorities.