The Zappos Exodus Continues After a Radical Management Experiment

Re:The Zappos Exodus Continues After a Radical Management Ex... by Pxtl on Thursday January 14, 2016 @08:27PM (#10906415)

Make the tech people the managers. Hire BAs for the soft skills and project management, attach a BA to each tech lead, and they work together to provide direction for their group. BA owns all communication and requirements, Tech lead owns the technical decisions, code reviews, work assignments, and they collaborate on managing the team.

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Re:The Zappos Exodus Continues After a Radical Management Ex... by humanrebar on Thursday January 14, 2016 @09:14PM (#10906632)

That sounds mostly great. Separate technical leadership from organizational management.

Not sure "requirements" necessarily belong to the BA. They probably belong to whomever can identify best with the customer. That's certainly a BA in many circumstances, but hardly all of them.

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Re:The Zappos Exodus Continues After a Radical Management Ex... by thawkins on Thursday January 14, 2016 @09:18PM (#10906661)

We are moving tne ba/requirements role over to the product managers, the devleads operate virtual teams and pull tesource in on an as needed basis.

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Re:The Zappos Exodus Continues After a Radical Management Ex... by jon-wood on Friday January 15, 2016 @01:44AM (#10907653)

> pull resource in

Did you mean people? I really hate this kind of dehumanising management speak.

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Re:The Zappos Exodus Continues After a Radical Management Ex... by Pxtl on Friday January 15, 2016 @10:10AM (#10909712)

We're a small group so we don't have separate roles of PM vs BA.

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