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Why not both? Even much smaller organizations tend to have low-impact teams that could be absorbed by others and their work deprioritized. If you're going to fi
by twodave 4y ago
Why not both? Even much smaller organizations tend to have low-impact teams that could be absorbed by others and their work deprioritized. If you're going to fire a dozen managers then the implication (or at least possibility) exists that maybe even the bottom 20% of that group is assigned to low-priority projects and perhaps even under-performing.
Then 216 => 43 becomes 203 => 29
Now you've reduced the workforce by 10% and put some miserable projects entirely out of their misery at the same time!
- RhodesianHunter 4y agoAnd suddenly reduce the velocity of all other teams because whoops it turns out those low priority projects were dependencies of everyone else.
- hinkley 4y agoI worry about any company that doesn’t track priority and severity separately. Priority is political, and often bullshit (everything is top priority!) but some tasks, if not completed, are company killers, and some just embarrass a loud-mouthed salesperson in front of a customer.