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> My current manager decided to add 50 outsourced engineers to a team of 5 to deliver the product in a year (instead of the 1.5 - 2 originally guesstimated). W
by romanovcode 4y ago
> My current manager decided to add 50 outsourced engineers to a team of 5 to deliver the product in a year (instead of the 1.5 - 2 originally guesstimated).
What one developer can do in a week - two developers can do in two weeks!
- marginalia_nu 4y agoIf we move to a microservices architecture, we can use 100 developers to solve same the same problem in with ten times the hardware! With growth like that, we'll be unstoppable!
- speedgoose 4y agoMake sure to deploy your micro services in Microsoft Azure AKS to improve the reliability on the long term, thanks to the included and frequent network issues.
- devoutsalsa 4y agoHow else will we justify the military grade, globally distributed, multi-planetary federated, immediately consistent Kafka cluster that the CIO just purchased? I’m still not sure how to get all the servers to synchronize when Mars is on the opposite side of the sun.
- torginus 4y agoThat has more downtime during upgrades than my college dorm Counter-Strike server built from leftover PC components ever had.
- threatripper 4y agoIt sounds like you're not having enough coordination meetings. You can make communication more efficient if you add more levels of hierarchy. MBAs are good at managing. Engineers are often wandering off-topic, so put MBAs in between the engineers to manage the communication and avoid unsupervised engineer-engineer-contact between different groups.
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- noduerme 4y agoI was waiting for a /s at the end of this comment, but now I can't tell if you're kidding.
- raisin_churn 4y agoIf MBAs weren't economically efficient, the market wouldn't make so many of them and companies wouldn't pay them so much.
- elcritch 4y agoI refer you to the discussion a few days back on people not being accurately modeled as rational agents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32181987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32181987 Companies and entire markets follow similar patterns of only having bounded rationality, IMHO. Markets can also have decades of slack or delay from stimulus to outcomes. Take the slow decline of Boeing after acquiring McDonnell Douglas and their MBA heavy structure. https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis/ https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merg...
- ramphastidae 4y agoThis is pure fantasy. Markets have never been efficient and actors have never been rational.