Re:We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons
by NikolaNovak on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:01AM
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I think it strongly depends how narrowly we define "work"
- I will agree that there is significant productivity variation between team members
- On my team, sure, ~20% of people are developers and doing Development work
- But testers, business analysis, system admins, release managers, etc are all still necessary and valuable. It is common but inexcusable hubris or unawareness of business goals and other team's contributions, to think they don't have necessary and productive roles.
- I've been on several dozen projects across at least two dozen companies and cultures, and I don't think I've ever been on one where only 5th of people do all the productive/needed work. Not even remotely close :-/
- I will agree that there is significant productivity variation between team members
- On my team, sure, ~20% of people are developers and doing Development work
- But testers, business analysis, system admins, release managers, etc are all still necessary and valuable. It is common but inexcusable hubris or unawareness of business goals and other team's contributions, to think they don't have necessary and productive roles.
- I've been on several dozen projects across at least two dozen companies and cultures, and I don't think I've ever been on one where only 5th of people do all the productive/needed work. Not even remotely close :-/