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> I would much rather a developer work 10 hours and accomplish what needs to get done than work 40 and negatively impact the business. It feels like there is a
by paulcole 4y ago
> I would much rather a developer work 10 hours and accomplish what needs to get done than work 40 and negatively impact the business.
It feels like there is a third option here that I can’t quite put my finger on.
- em-bee 4y agoi see two additional options. one is, find something else to do that actually benefits the company. that only works if the climate in the company supports that. the other is to reduce the size of the team because apparently so many people are not needed to get all the work done.
- geraldwhen 4y agoIf hospitals only employed enough surgeons to ensure they were always in surgery, people would die. Systems need slack to respond to change. A fully utilized queue quickly leads to infinite backlogs.
- em-bee 4y agoof course, but i didn't mean to remove all the slack, just some of it. you don't need 4x the capacity (OP was talking about working 10 hours out of 40), especially not for IT work where people generally don't die just because your capacity is maxed out.