Re:Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense
by FridgeSeal on Monday October 14, 2024 @05:29PM
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> For example, sending us unfinished designs and requirements that haven’t been fully thought through
Oh man. Once had a founder who did this to the dev team: blurry, pixelated screenshots with 2 or 3 arrows and vague “do something like <massively under specified statement>”.
The team _requested_ that we have a bit more detail and clarity in the designs, because it was causing us significant slowdown and we were told “be quiet, stop complaining, it’s a ‘team effort’ so you’re just as at fault too”.
Unsurprisingly, morale was low and all the good people left quickly.
Oh man. Once had a founder who did this to the dev team: blurry, pixelated screenshots with 2 or 3 arrows and vague “do something like <massively under specified statement>”.
The team _requested_ that we have a bit more detail and clarity in the designs, because it was causing us significant slowdown and we were told “be quiet, stop complaining, it’s a ‘team effort’ so you’re just as at fault too”.
Unsurprisingly, morale was low and all the good people left quickly.