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Re:Scrum is a cancer by PeterStuer on Monday August 28, 2023 @02:12AM (#37290424)
It works both ways. Every form of micromanagement will turn every dev team into a bunch of demotivated, junior performing, just here for the paycheck careless bunch of codemonkeys.

It is an assured loss for all.

Why not the opossite way? Trust people a bit above what they currently warrant, see who rises to the opportunity, and ease out the rest. This will over time elevate to a decent team.

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Re:Scrum is a cancer by kelseyfrog on Monday August 28, 2023 @02:24AM (#37290509)
The Netflix Culture deck[1] acknowledges that this strategy requires "top of market compensation." What percentage of organizations have the ability to pay top of market compensation? The answer to that is the reason why the strategy doesn't generalize.

1. https://igormroz.com/documents/netflix_culture.pdf

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Re:Scrum is a cancer by PeterStuer on Monday August 28, 2023 @11:28AM (#37295667)
I don't see where the document you cite makes this causal link. In my experience this is also not true. You pay enough for money not to be a concern. Then people start to value other things, such as not getting depressed through being micromanaged or killed by process.
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