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Re:Ask HN: How do you handle inter-team dependencies? on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:43PM (#12323725)
This is sometimes what happens, but it's far less efficient than the ideal. Specialization means that our engineers don't have to spend such a big chunk of their time learning different code bases and build systems.

Ask HN: How do you handle inter-team dependencies?

Our company isn't very good at prioritizing inter-team dependencies. For example, team A depends on team B to deliver a new API, but team B fails to deliver. The API is the most important thing for the company, but often Team B is prioritizing their own projects. Team A ends up repeatedly pinging and negotiating with team B, but then ultimately implements their own hacky workaround,...

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