Comment by analog31
5 years ago
Indeed the team of software engineers, no matter how big and competent, is: 1) Difficult to manage because you have to convey what you want them to do, often across a gap of domain knowledge; 2) Hopelessly overbooked.
And often the easiest way to try a few things and communicate the idea is by prototyping it with a spreadsheet.
Exactly. Ad hoc work is excels true value in my opinion. And the network effect of having so many people at least casually exposed to it. Because nothing is ever done, it’s never as simple as do “this”, it’s do “this” first then let’s discuss changes to “that” then get so and so’s thoughts and revise “it” which probably has a file name ending with “Final V4” by the time the intended actually received it.