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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 [exc
by 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 agoSplitting 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