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Re:How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software by rowyourboat on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @02:54AM (#16374250)
That sounds like a normal organization to me...

> Engineering managers assign projects to engineers

So engineers do only work on tasks handed down to them. We just did not agree on what "task" means.

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Re:How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software by closeparen on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:13AM (#16374321)
Well ok. If "task" to you means a months-long initiative with hundreds of constituent parts, what do you call the items that take a few hours to a few days?
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Re:How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software by rowyourboat on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:37AM (#16374404)
Task. But a three-month project is, at the abstract level, also a task. I misunderstood you, that is all that is happening here.
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