Managing outsourced teams. Balancing innovation with predictability.

In the old days, when people talked about remote engineering teams, the first image the came to mind was a group of engineers in India that would use BBS to download the source code produced during the day in the US, then worked on the project and send back the source code to the US. This process created an illusion of parallelism. People would work regular ours in both offices and still be able to produce code up to 24 hours per day.

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Got Architecture?

Any architecture should guide and constrain, imposing the best ideas and lessons learned on designers and developers.

But try to wield too much power, and we will encounter resistance. Wield too little, and we make no contribution. An interest approach to solve this dilemma is called minimalist architecture.

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