> I've argued before with my leadership that, if we really wanted something done better/faster, we shouldn't be promoting the folks that did it out of the position for the next go around
This is similar to what Fred Brooks suggests in the "Surgical Team" chapter of "Mythical Man Month", although he's a bit harsh, I'll grant that:
> if a 200-man project has 25 managers who are the most competent and experienced programmers, fire the 175 troops and put the managers back to programming.
This is similar to what Fred Brooks suggests in the "Surgical Team" chapter of "Mythical Man Month", although he's a bit harsh, I'll grant that:
> if a 200-man project has 25 managers who are the most competent and experienced programmers, fire the 175 troops and put the managers back to programming.
EDIT: We were also talking about it yesterday here at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763562