Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense

Re:Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense by Towaway69 on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @04:07AM (#41846120)

What's wrong with collaboratively working together? Why is there a need to create an atificial competition between a "offence" and a "defence" team?

And why should team members be collaborative amongst their team? E.g. why should the "offence" team members suddenly help each other if it's not happening generally?

This sounds a lot like JDD - Jock Driven Development.

Perhaps the underlying problems of "don't touch it because we don't understand it" should be solved before engaging in fake competition to increase the stress levels.

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Re:Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense by megunderstood on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @04:38AM (#41846367)

Sounds like you didn't read the article.

The idea has nothing to do with creating artificial competition and it is actually designed as a form of collaboration.

Some work requires concentration and the defensive team is there to maintain the conditions for this concentration, i.e. prevent the offensive team from getting interrupted.

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Re:Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense by Towaway69 on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @04:53AM (#41846456)

Ok, that might well be the case! Many apologies for my mistaken assumptions.

Then perhaps the terminology - for me - has a different meaning.

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Re:Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense by Kinrany on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @08:41AM (#41847958)

It's a common and pervasive mistake to assume the meaning of a term by association with the words used in the term. Names of terms are at best mnemonics.

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