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I would argue that a lot of the "famed agility" and effectiveness of startups is their flat structure and lack of middle management bloat, especially for the de
by candiddevmike 6y ago
I would argue that a lot of the "famed agility" and effectiveness of startups is their flat structure and lack of middle management bloat, especially for the devs. As soon as you start splitting the dev teams apart, productivity grinds to a halt and you start hearing phrases like "this team owns that" and other territory marking behavior.
- pydry 6y agoI think that well defined software teams that can integrate effectively with one another in large companies could spell the end of software startups. The dysfunctionality of middle management outweighed economies of scale for a long time but I doubt it will last forever.
- jonfw 6y agoThat's probably because startups are small organizations. Nobody is arguing that productivity increases linearly as you add 2 pizza teams. Productivity increases logarithmically. '2 pizza teams' are supposed to represent where the productivity gains of adding a dev to a team are marginal.