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Yes, Its really super strange to adopt Google, Microsoft, Apple processes.. Yes?
by deelly 7y ago
Yes, Its really super strange to adopt Google, Microsoft, Apple processes.. Yes?
- jonathanstrange 7y agoIf you want to be better than them, then I'd say Yes.
- sanderjd 7y agoThe key is to figure out what to copy and what to innovate. This is usually captured by the idea of "core competency": figure out what your company's unique competency is, innovate in that area, and avoid trying to innovate in other areas in order to save time.
- goatinaboat 7y agoCorrect. Random companies cargo-culting what Google does has made half the industry massively dysfunctional e.g. in hiring processes
- quietbritishjim 7y agoThis is like assuming that Microsoft or Google is successful because of the version control software they use, rather than because of the actual software they wrote. It may be a useful hint about good practices, but it's quite possible that it's not the best solution for you and it is certainly not THE way to be successful.
- vasco 7y agoThe other way to look at it is that if you truly believe your strength is your product (the software you write), you might as well not risk in other areas where you could either make a right or a wrong decision, and just standardize on every other process so you're on a level playing field. This way you lose the chance of innovating on how to do payroll more efficiently, but you focus your innovation efforts on your product (your software).
- Kaiyou 7y agoIf Google had tried hard to adopt Yahoo, it wouldn't have gone very well for them, I figure.
- iso1210 7y agoApple did not use Microsofts processes to get where they are today. Neither did Google.
- marcosdumay 7y agoYou mean like stack rating, the microservices crazy, massively parallel cluster for dealing with 1GB of data, letting an army of very competent developers to unproductive companies because all you care about is brain teasers, creating user-hostile interfaces because of "design", and other things like that?
- GuB-42 7y agoScale matters. Unless your company has thousands of employees and billions in revenue, Google/Microsoft/Apple processes are probably not for you.
- take_a_breath 7y ago==Unless your company has thousands of employees and billions in revenue, Google/Microsoft/Apple processes are probably not for you.== Then you probably don't need and shouldn't buy SAP.
- SergeAx 7y agoActually yes. I saw numerous teams adopting monorepos, k8s, microservices and other buzzwords, and either suffering infinitely or putting enormous effort into dragging those to the point of sheer mediocrity. Because they are not Google and will never be.