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"A truly great engineering organization is one where perfectly normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and an ordinary amount of expertise, can
by ultra-boss 2y ago
"A truly great engineering organization is one where perfectly normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and an ordinary amount of expertise, can consistently move fast, ship code, respond to users, understand the systems they’ve built, and move the business forward a little bit more, day by day, week by week."
plus plus plus plus plus to this.
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- slindsey 2y agoThis is the key message in my opinion. I've worked with wonderful software developers who can accomplish far more than others (as well as a few who are a net drain on the team.) The key is to craft an organization that allows anyone with a minimum skillset to be successful. At least on the team that I'm currently in, this means a well-defined organization with clearly defined limits of what they should and should not do. This is with respect to customers and also internally.
- mytailorisrich 2y agoAnd to achieve this the organization only requires exceptional leaders...
- Muromec 2y agoI want to believe, but has anymore ever worked at such great organization?
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y agoI have twice, but it's always huge companies ($billions and 100k employees) who has an established business, and some kind of monopoly which could not threaten the survival of the company.
- rqmedes 2y agoAnd who leads and sets the vision. A committee of “average” engineers?
- WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y agoIf this were true then software engineering jobs would have all already been offshored. Software is much closer to a competitive race where small improvements in ability give completely outsized returns.
- N_Lens 2y agoYou're both right, but in different contexts.