Nicely captured and well thought out. As an engineering manager with 30 engineers in a 120-people company working on a social marketplace, our company requires

Nicely captured and well thought out. As an engineering manager with 30 engineers in a 120-people company working on a social marketplace, our company requires an extraordinary amount of coordination, while engineers also need to focus. I do feel like the post speaks quite a bit about extremes - focus, coordination, perfect, unproductive etc etc, while most of the teams sit somewhere in between trying to find that balance the author is referring to. Also, the position of where they are changes on a daily basis depending on what work is being done and who is joining and who is leaving. Wearing my engineer hat on, I'd love to, just get the requirements and tell everyone to go away while I focus on my work, but I also understand the whole coordination part. It's absolutely critical to making the team efficient & productive, which often go unnoticed and unappreciated.