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Broadly, I disagree, at least when talking about any team or sub-team focused on software development. It depends more on the personalities, values and organiz
by keerthiko 5y ago
Broadly, I disagree, at least when talking about any team or sub-team focused on software development.
It depends more on the personalities, values and organization of the workplace and the team — for any size, if more than 20% of people involved need to spend more than 2 hrs/week in meetings — it is an organizational/ops issue, not an inherent feature of the work.
> more foreign the domain the more time is needed to coordinate work
More foreign to who? If it is foreign to individual team members, then it is a problem of insufficient onboarding/training material and process, poor documentation, or under-qualified hire.
- yibg 5y agoForeign to the engineers. Onboarding still takes time, regardless of documentation. There is a reason why CPAs takes a year to complete, even though there are lots of high quality written material that have been used for decades. Ever tried getting productive yourself quickly when working with some domain specific software like accounting? There is a lot of context that needs to be learned.