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It's no surprise that developers can self-manage the development of a source code tool. However this model is unlikely to work in any other space since the pro
by aneth 16y ago
It's no surprise that developers can self-manage the development of a source code tool. However this model is unlikely to work in any other space since the product requirements will not be in the domain expertise of the engineers. Github employees use the product all day in the process of developing it - this is true for hardly any products. Imagine engineers trying to self-manage the development of an ERP system - the resulting product would be unlikely to solve real customer problems.
Other than that, it sounds like fun.
- wpeterson 16y ago+1 on the thesis - developers expert in the product, using the product. To me this should be the real goal and take-away from this article, not the many nice things this enables, but how to get there for other companies/products. THAT would be revolutionary.
- lucisferre 16y agoLots of great products are made by teams of only developers and designers all the time. I think the real question is why do such low quality products get produced by business when building LOB apps to solve "real" customer problems. In my opinion it is too much interference in the communication chain between the customer and the devs designers and that is usually a management problem.