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I don’t think Big Tech needs to overtax its engineers to deliver innovation. They can afford to hire enough folks to keep the innovation engine humming without
by pm90 4y ago
I don’t think Big Tech needs to overtax its engineers to deliver innovation. They can afford to hire enough folks to keep the innovation engine humming without requiring heroics from ICs.
I understand there are some exceptions: sometimes during outages/emergencies, you do want folks to fix issues ASAP regardless of how long they are up.
- kevinventullo 4y agoI don’t think innovation hums, it bursts.
- thuuuomas 4y agoThe opera singer shatters the wine glass with a humming
- ElevenLathe 4y agoMine itches.
- closeparen 4y agoYou can just barely story point, Gantt chart, and JIRA ticket your way through routine CRUD development. I don’t think too much innovation is happening that way. Innovation in my experience comes from “off the books” deep dives by individuals, pairs, and occasionally groups as big as 3-5. It comes from going into territory that is not well defined, doesn’t have predictable timelines, and is otherwise anathema to formal BigCo project management and communication structures.
- JohnFen 4y agoAbsolutely, but you can do all that without heroics.
- closeparen 4y agoWork done outside the formal assignment and tracking processes is normally what I would consider “heroics.”