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As someone working in my 2nd 1000+ developers “feature factory” company, this article describes exactly how things work here in general - and makes for a pretty
by herval 7y ago
As someone working in my 2nd 1000+ developers “feature factory” company, this article describes exactly how things work here in general - and makes for a pretty disfuncional environment. At least in my experience, I think this article is pretty spot-on. If you see yourself just starting to drive to these sorts of initiatives - eg establishing “weekly cadence syncs” that require “wins”, or “virtual squads” as the main team structure, you still have time to ponder and avoid walking that path. Walking back from these cultural shifts is VERY hard.
- caseymarquis 7y agoWhat sort of thing does one make with 1000+ developers?
- Aeolun 7y agoThe same thing one makes with 5. Just really inefficiently.
- collyw 7y agoWe have a feature factory with 5 developers. we could do with more people OR we could do to simplify our product. Instead we keep adding more and more to the tech stack which is already difficult to keep on top of with such a small team....