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Don’t forget that large companies internally are very similar to a communist planned economy. They have five year plans and central planning. Everything flows f
by Ididntdothis 7y ago
Don’t forget that large companies internally are very similar to a communist planned economy. They have five year plans and central planning. Everything flows from the top. They value predictability over everything else. So it makes sense to run everything like an assembly line where every position knows what they are supposed to do and can easily be trained. Only a few elite people get to work on the big picture and be creative. Personally I don’t like this but I’ll admit that it works.
- ChrisMarshallNY 7y agoIt does work, but is not a particularly good approach for consumer (or even pro) software. You keep delivering yesterday's technology, tomorrow. It's the kind of approach that you might use for space launch software, but even that can be iterated (as SpaceX is showing).
- Ididntdothis 7y agoAs long as the money keeps coming in, I don't think the business guys will see any reason for change.
- ilammy 7y agoIt's funny that if you invert the sentences, they even kinda slightly make some sense. Small companies are similar to capitalistic free market. They have no plan, but everything flows from the engineering. They value innovation over anything else. So it makes sense to run everything like a lab where nobody knows what they are supposed to do but cannot be easily replaced. Only a few elite people get to work on their own pace without turning on their brain. Personally I like it but I'll admit that it never works. As a result, they always strive to deliver tomorrow's technology yesterday.