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Riley S. Faelan

@soop And they like to pretend that this has to do with some sort of innate qualities of the developers.

Most of the time, the developers who go particularly slow do this because they're made to attend too many meetings, fill out too many TPS reports, and stand too many stand-ups. And the developers who go particularly fast often do this because they work for startups who can't afford all the bureaucracy yet.

@baldur

11 January at 10:09 | Wall-to-wall | Open on toot.cat
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HyperSoop :spinny_cat_aroace: :spinny_fox_agender:

@riley bureucracy sucks. that's basically the organizational waste of time and money i'm talking about - less organizational friction means faster and/or better work.
@baldur

11 January at 10:12 | Open on wetdry.world
Riley S. Faelan

@soop Not entirely. Bureacuracies can be a force for good. (In the traditional Chinese sense — well, the original form of it; it got enshittified quite fast — bureaucracies were about delegating decisions to people who had some specific training in making good decisions in the fields they were working in. Many countries' civil services still aim for this basic principle, with various degrees of success.) But all too often, bureaucracies get built by incompetent managers who go for the æsthetics, not the function.

@baldur

@soop Not entirely. Bureacuracies can be a force for good. (In the traditional Chinese sense — well, the original form of it; it got enshittified quite fast — bureaucracies were about delegating decisions to people who had some specific training in making good decisions in the fields they were working in. Many countries' civil services still aim for this basic principle, with various degrees of success.) But all too often, bureaucracies get built by incompetent managers who go for the æsthetics, not the function.

11 January at 10:16 | Open on toot.cat
Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok:

@riley @soop @baldur

bureaucracy can work well. standardized processing. no surprises. clear criteria. rational and fair decisionmaking. serves the users of the bureaucracy.

but it can easily evolve into rules for rules’ sake, form after form after “wtf you mean I need a 17-E? policy says 17-F!” over function, a blockage, an obstacle. serves only those who control and/or hate it.

11 January at 10:32 | Open on chaos.social
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