This is an excellent warning to any startups looking at growing quickly. I am living through such a growth effort, and I can definitely see how the culture is changing for the worse in the company.
Counter to the author's general point, I would add that I think well-defined budgeting exercises that lead to clear targets of the kind described in the article, where people are "made accountable," appear hubristic to me. There are so many unknowns that will come up that even to pretend to be able to meet such goals feels off. I'm waiting for management science to catch up with agile development.
Counter to the author's general point, I would add that I think well-defined budgeting exercises that lead to clear targets of the kind described in the article, where people are "made accountable," appear hubristic to me. There are so many unknowns that will come up that even to pretend to be able to meet such goals feels off. I'm waiting for management science to catch up with agile development.