The high concept -- not astonishing, but well summarized here -- is that managers and programmers simply work on different sorts of clocks (different granularities, more than different hours), and there's a great deal of friction when those clocks need to overlap. Traditionally, programmers are forced to run on the manager's granularity, but smart companies are starting to take this problem seriously, to find ways to let programmers work in their natural mode more often...
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
The high concept -- not astonishing, but well summarized here -- is that managers and programmers simply work on different sorts of clocks (different granularities, more than different hours), and there's a great deal of friction when those clocks need to overlap. Traditionally, programmers are forced to run on the manager's granularity, but smart companies are starting to take this problem seriously, to find ways to let programmers work in their natural mode more often...
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Is anybody following me only here any more?
(Unlike nearly everything I post, this is intentionally only being posted to LiveJournal.) A few days ago, I posted my analysis of the new LJ Terms…
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Signal Boost: Affordable Housing at Assembly Square
Mainly for Somerville residents -- the developer of an enormous new apartment complex at Assembly Square is trying to skeeve out of some of the…
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A Study of the Battleground
When I dubbed my current politics posts with the tag "wartime thoughts", that was not originally intended as a general statement about the…
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