Comment by nynx
1 year ago
I think they are correct. I’d say it’s easy to work all your life in the shadow in the cave and never realize that you can do everything yourself. You don’t need “glue” people or project managers.
1 year ago
I think they are correct. I’d say it’s easy to work all your life in the shadow in the cave and never realize that you can do everything yourself. You don’t need “glue” people or project managers.
What is "you" here? If "you" are a single developer or founder of a small startup making a single product then sure, "you" might not need any of these things.
But I think the point of the article is that Google seems to have pretty serious problems stemming from the fact that it apparently has lots of individual teams working on their own thing without enough coordination with each other.
I don’t think google’s problem is a necessary outcome of relying on engineers for the glue and project planning/management. In fact, Google does not do that. They’re full of glue people.