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Teams that are bigger than necessary to get their job done create huge problems in large corporations. People without enough to do aren't just wasting money and
by roin 13y ago
Teams that are bigger than necessary to get their job done create huge problems in large corporations. People without enough to do aren't just wasting money and other resources, they also create politics. It's difficult to figure out the optimal size of a team, but I've seen greater productivity out of teams that are a bit too small than those that are a bit too big.
- ryen 13y agoThe problem is you get managers who are "head count" hungry and want as many people reporting to them as can fit in the building. It becomes a matter of politics. Having a limit placed from the top down is a good thing. More large corps should do this.
- yuhong 13y agoEven better, michaelochurch has talked about open allocation before.
- nikatwork 13y agoOpen allocation is great if your project lead can accurately and honestly define resource needs. Having worked in many a megacorp, that would seem to be an incredibly rare scenario. Most teams can't even track actual resource usage, let alone accurately project the data.