I am certain someone has studied this in great detail. Still, after dealing with, what I invariably experience as Kafkan project management in big companies for a while now, it perplexes me how inefficiently they appear to work.<\/p>\n
Take say 14 people, and suppose you have 3 pieces of standard nerdery work to do, including project planning, management, etc. What would be the most efficient way of organizing these people, and attacking the assignments?<\/p>\n
The way all big companies go about doing this would in my experience be to build a pyramid hierarchy with say 1 person in the top with overall responsibility, perhaps 3 business type middle managers with budget, schedule, etc. responsibilities, 6 project managers with more administrative tasks, and 4 nerds to do the actual coding, design etc. Graphical design would typically be done by an external agency.<\/p>\n
Now why is it done like this, and – are there really no other more efficient ways in large organizations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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