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Sometimes there is just more work to be done than that small team can handle. It’s often extremely effective to have a small highly skilled team explore an area
by aardvark179 3y ago
Sometimes there is just more work to be done than that small team can handle. It’s often extremely effective to have a small highly skilled team explore an area and chart out a path, and then expand that team so the core won’t be working on the problem for the next ten years.
- ryandrake 3y agoI think an underrated skill is the ability to say no to work that "has to be done." You're maybe taking it as a given that there is this list of -stuff- that simply has to be done, and therefore we need a bigger team to do it. Often that -stuff- are features nobody wants, UI re-designs for their own sake, and adding metrics nobody is going to look at. Many companies lack this ability to curate so we get the software we have today. A good eng manager or product owner says NO to a lot of crap. Bad ones triple their team size, hire managers of other managers to deal with the huge org, implement process to keep things sane, all to cram stuff into the product that should not even be written in the first place.
- srj 3y agoMy lens on this is colored through my own big company experience, but I've found it is the bad manager in this scenario who would be promoted. After all, they're managing such a large org - they have to be promoted.