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Everyone on every team should have something to "own" and feel proud of. You don't "own" anything if you're always on team defense. Following this advice is a s

• FireBeyond 2y ago
  Yup, last place I was at I had engineers begging me (PM) to advocate against this, because leadership was all "We're going to form a SEAL team to blaze out [exciting, interesting, new, fun idea/s]. Another team will be on bug fixes." My team had a bunch of stability work, and bug fixes (and there was a lot of bugs and a lot of tech debt, and very little organizational enthusiasm to fix the latter). Guess where there morale was, compared to some of the other teams?
  • 000ooo000 2y ago
    Splitting a team by interesting/uninteresting work is a comically bad idea. It's puzzling that it ever gets pitched, let alone adopted. Edit: I mean an ongoing split, not a rotation
• LatticeAnimal 2y ago
  From the post: > At the end of the cycle, we swap. They swap teams every 2-4 weeks so nobody will always be on team defense.
• ninininino 2y ago
  You didn't read the article did you, they swap every 2 weeks between being on offense and defense.