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A comment on Joel Spolsky's business operating system.

Re:Joel Spolsky's business operating system by JabavuAdams on Thursday July 24, 2014 @12:14PM (#8080391)
I've been reading Spolsky's writing since he began, and it's strange I still think of his company as having 10 or so employees.

Honest question: what do the 30+ people on the production side of Stack Exchange do? This frankly seems like a huge team to me. On the other hand, maybe that's what's required for sane scheduling and clean code. My experience is with 1-5 devs doing any mad hack or taking known-shortsighted actions to meet the current deadline.

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Re:Joel Spolsky's business operating system by pixelmonkey on Thursday July 24, 2014 @12:18PM (#8080435)
If this article from HighScalability is any indication, it looks like the 30+ on the product side of Stack Exchange are running a very tight ship:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-upda...

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