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210 points dakshgupta | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 20:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source

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stronglikedan ◴[14 Oct 24 20:56 UTC] No.41841907[source]▶

Everyone on every team should have something to "own" and feel proud of. You don't "own" anything if you're always on team defense. Following this advice is a sure fire way to have a high churn rate.

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FireBeyond ◴[14 Oct 24 21:00 UTC] No.41841946[source]▶

>>41841907 #

Yup, last place I was at I had engineers begging me (PM) to advocate against this, because leadership was all "We're going to form a SEAL team to blaze out [exciting, interesting, new, fun idea/s]. Another team will be on bug fixes."

My team had a bunch of stability work, and bug fixes (and there was a lot of bugs and a lot of tech debt, and very little organizational enthusiasm to fix the latter).

Guess where there morale was, compared to some of the other teams?

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1. 000ooo000 ◴[15 Oct 24 09:34 UTC] No.41846728[source]▶

>>41841946 #

Splitting a team by interesting/uninteresting work is a comically bad idea. It's puzzling that it ever gets pitched, let alone adopted.

Edit: I mean an ongoing split, not a rotation

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Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense