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> every Friday, each team sends a brief "here's what we delivered this week" email to the whole company I am not sure this scales very well with company size.

by generic92034 3y ago

> every Friday, each team sends a brief "here's what we delivered this week" email to the whole company I am not sure this scales very well with company size. ;)

swalsh 3y ago
Have each squad send the email to the platoon, and each platoon send a summarized email to the company.
- generic92034 3y ago
  Depending on company culture that can lead to uniformly very positive feedback on the lower levels (amazing new features, developers show excellent performance, all of them), which does not seem to fit the mess the top management can see at their level (customers complaining, sales dropping).
  - jodrellblank 3y ago
    "the Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. [...preamble] it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head." - George Orwell, 1984. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of features and improvements were produced on paper, while perhaps half the users of SaaS products complained or left.
steelframe 3y ago
It doesn't. I've recently had to add about 30 mail filters to keep all the weekly/bi-weekly area newsletters trumpeting every random "milestone" for every team out of my main inbox. When it comes time for me to move on from the company, one of my antics is going to be to reply-all to each and every one of them with the word "unsubscribe."
hliyan 3y ago
They're brief emails with a few lines and screenshots that can be read in under 2 minutes. Most stakeholders will read through emails from teams developing features for their business area, and skim the rest. They can also opt out entirely if they want to. But then they lose the right to complain that they didn't know what features are being shipped and when, or how to use them correctly (remember: the mail works as a "how to" too).
- generic92034 3y ago
  It would be too much in large software companies. There are thousands of teams and several products have absolutely no relevance to each other. So such a kind of self-inflicted spam attack would not event remotely work.

> every Friday, each team sends a brief "here's what we delivered this week" email to the whole company I am not sure this scales very well with company size. ;)

swalsh 3y ago

Have each squad send the email to the platoon, and each platoon send a summarized email to the company.

generic92034 3y ago
Depending on company culture that can lead to uniformly very positive feedback on the lower levels (amazing new features, developers show excellent performance, all of them), which does not seem to fit the mess the top management can see at their level (customers complaining, sales dropping).
- jodrellblank 3y ago
  "the Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. [...preamble] it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head." - George Orwell, 1984. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of features and improvements were produced on paper, while perhaps half the users of SaaS products complained or left.

steelframe 3y ago

It doesn't. I've recently had to add about 30 mail filters to keep all the weekly/bi-weekly area newsletters trumpeting every random "milestone" for every team out of my main inbox. When it comes time for me to move on from the company, one of my antics is going to be to reply-all to each and every one of them with the word "unsubscribe."

hliyan 3y ago

They're brief emails with a few lines and screenshots that can be read in under 2 minutes. Most stakeholders will read through emails from teams developing features for their business area, and skim the rest. They can also opt out entirely if they want to. But then they lose the right to complain that they didn't know what features are being shipped and when, or how to use them correctly (remember: the mail works as a "how to" too).

generic92034 3y ago
It would be too much in large software companies. There are thousands of teams and several products have absolutely no relevance to each other. So such a kind of self-inflicted spam attack would not event remotely work.