Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense

This is often harder at large companies because you very rarely make career progress playing defense, so it becomes very tricky to do it fairly. It can work wonders if you have the right teammates, but it’s almost a prisoners dilemma game that falls apart as soon as one person opts out.

Good point, we will usually only rotate when the long running task is done but eventually we’ll arrive at some feature that takes more then a few weeks to build so will need to restructure our methods then.