Scaleups: If we double the amount of engineers, why can't we get the work done in half the time?

However funny Warren Buffett's famous quote ‘𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘊𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘢 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘺 𝘎𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘵’ is, it doesn't really do any justice to the creative process and the complexities of software engineering.

While ideally, you should see an acceleration after adding new developers, the reality of many scaleups is that there are many inhibiting factors at work that affect productivity, or can even cause big delays when not addressed.

In the article "If adding more engineers doesn’t speed up our development, what does?", I'm describing a few of these situations and best practices that actually help in speeding up software development:

✅ Respect Legacy Code & Treat it Right
✅ Forget Technical Debt (I'll explain)
✅ Own the Code in a Senior Way
✅ Split up the Monolith (in all ways possible)
✅ Address the Documentation Problem — Intelligently
✅ Analyze & Fix the Product Development Process

𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.

💡Inspiration for the article: Maarten Dalmijn's post a few weeks ago (see comments).

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Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mvneerven_scaleups-techdebt-legacy-activity-7031918898685845504--TAz