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> It means there should be regular public (to the team) milestones that force engineers to show their work. While that is part of the underlying point, "beware
by itafroma 13y ago
> It means there should be regular public (to the team) milestones that force engineers to show their work.
While that is part of the underlying point, "beware of a guy in a room" is very much "don't stick a guy in a room by himself and let him do his thing" (he emphasizes it more in the video I linked to). The larger, more figurative point about having regular, public milestones is rule 4, "don't go dark", of which he claims rule 6 is a special case.
- abalone 13y agoNot to be pedantic but he's making a point about "preeminent developer types" not office space. Specifically don't bet the schedule on one rockstar developer's word alone. It really has little to do with the physical office space configuration. This problem could happen in open plans too, assuming a sufficiently complex project that can't be assessed by merely glancing over their shoulder.