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Having worked in a range of companies, there is definitely an inverse correlation between company size and speed, especially for individual teams. At 500 people
by altacc 5y ago
Having worked in a range of companies, there is definitely an inverse correlation between company size and speed, especially for individual teams. At 500 people you're well into enterprise level organisation, where a lot of processes are put in place to minimize the amount of damage a single person can do to the organisation. That also puts a speed limit on those efficient and knowledgeable contributors.
Some companies spend a lot of time & energy trying to implement operating models that try to overcome this but actually end up putting in place more decision processes & oversight. Sometimes the real solution is to reduce control and let the efficient teams lead the way. But then what would all that management do to fill their days...
- mywittyname 5y agoI think this is more correlated to maturity than size. It's just that size is highly correlated to maturity. I've been in large companies where I was the admin/owner of their AWS account. And I've worked at companies with 200 people where I have to submit tickets to get anything created in AWS. The major difference was how mature the product was.
- necheffa 5y agoI work on a suite of products over 50 years old that have been incumbent for about that long and still have a submit tickets to get just about anything done.
- closeparen 5y agoMy current employer has a nice balanced approach to this: everything is a code review. I may need a gatekeeper to approve my change, but I can always submit it. It’s also safer this way. Not even the proper owners should routinely be on production shells or tools with live write access. They also go through peer review with each other. Once the infrastructure is in place for that, it makes sense to open up.