My org was like that when it was 20 people on one floor doing pretty much their own thing in groups of 2-4. Now it’s 100 people across two countries, expected

My org was like that when it was 20 people on one floor doing pretty much their own thing in groups of 2-4. Now it’s 100 people across two countries, expected to collaborate closely with sibling orgs. Management philosophy has shifted to “we will ask a few handpicked experts to write down the best way to do a thing, and then everyone else is a machine for executing that procedure.” If software engineering worked like that, we would have automated it.