Why Yammer believes the traditional engineering organizational structure is dead

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

Ruby Glasses sends me to a post about Yammer. I’m now working a contract gig at Timeout.com and the tech team uses Yammer to chat about tech news. So I was interested in the article. I also posted the article to Yammer, so the rest of the tech team would see it.

Taryn East picked 2 very good quotes out of the article:

Highlights for me:

Yammer’s biggest rule of thumb is “2 to 10 people, 2 to 10 weeks,” … If you employ the “2 to 10″ rule, it’ll also force you to release often, test your assumptions, and not over-invest in mistakes.

and

While everybody knows how expensive context switching is, it’s staggering that nobody builds that into their organization as a constraint. With total focus, you build one thing, ship it, and then are able to move onto something else.

Post external references

  1. 1
    http://rubyglasses.blogspot.com/2013/03/link-why-yanmer-believes-traditional.html
  2. 2
    http://www.timeout.com/
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