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Many things right familiar to our IT experience. 1. From the Mythical Man-Month, as team size (and capacity of productive work) grows linearly, communication o
by crpatino 13y ago
Many things right familiar to our IT experience.
1. From the Mythical Man-Month, as team size (and capacity of productive work) grows linearly, communication overhead grows quadratically.
2. Attempts to manage with traditional tools get sidetracked by impossibility to create standard procedures that account for overwhelming detail and the need to apply experience, knowledge and raw common sense on every level of decision.
3. Do we have some insights to offer? Maybe instead of having lone residents falling in and out of context over short shift, a solution similar to pair programming can be implemented. Think of pairs of residents, the fresh one (less than 6 hours in the shift) doing the driving and the one with more hours behind providing tactic advise and context for what have happened in the previous shift. Could such a team eventually take care of (at least) 80% the work load of the two doctors working independently in parallel?