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Re:Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams by closeparen on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:44AM (#23999484)
>"communication is terrible"

My company has brought in a lot of Amazon people and ideas, but unfortunately we go this one backwards. "Communication is great." Managers are explicitly encouraged to structure projects to maximize cross-team and cross-org meeting hours.

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Re:Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams by pdelgallego on Friday July 31, 2020 @06:34PM (#24015018)
It is quite common to get communication wrong, even inside Amazon. It leads to design by committee, slow decision making, and increase team dependencies.

I would love to hear your experience adopting Amazon mechanisms.

Disclaimer: I work at Amazon. I help customers to adopt some of those mechanisms.

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