Your example is an extreme example; one that’s hard to find patterns from. I think lawyers/accountants would be a better examples. Independent units of work, b

Your example is an extreme example; one that’s hard to find patterns from. I think lawyers/accountants would be a better examples. Independent units of work, but different levels of effort give different results as well. Very similar to programming and familiarity with the specifics matter. There are a lot of opportunities for decoupling of tasks for software engineers that are ignored because of that line of thinking. Yes, on boarding members to a team is time consuming, but the deadlines that are pushed rarely matter in any real sense. I can’t remember the last time anything I worked on would have had a material difference if we shipped two weeks later. (Cutting off scope creep isn’t a valid reason for deadlines.) So I see it mostly as this is just how it works mentality.