<story><title>Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)</title><url>https://lethain.com/durably-excellent-teams/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fconnor</author><text>&amp;quot;When falling behind, the system fix is to hire more people until the team moves into treading water.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I actually disagree with this statement. Teams can be falling behind for a variety of reasons and throwing more people at the problem can often cause further issues especially if the domain &amp;#x2F; technology &amp;#x2F; code base &amp;#x2F; system ..... Is complex.&lt;p&gt;Onboarding people into a team is an incredibly costly exercise, to do it while a team is already struggling will often create a worse problem. You need to be sure that the reason the team is struggling is purely an hour&amp;#x27;s in the day and not due to other factors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>papito</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s like every generation is determined to re-learn the Mythical Man Month - the hard way. You crack it open and boom, there is your anti-pattern right there, called &amp;quot;Brooke&amp;#x27;s Law&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)</title><url>https://lethain.com/durably-excellent-teams/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fconnor</author><text>&amp;quot;When falling behind, the system fix is to hire more people until the team moves into treading water.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I actually disagree with this statement. Teams can be falling behind for a variety of reasons and throwing more people at the problem can often cause further issues especially if the domain &amp;#x2F; technology &amp;#x2F; code base &amp;#x2F; system ..... Is complex.&lt;p&gt;Onboarding people into a team is an incredibly costly exercise, to do it while a team is already struggling will often create a worse problem. You need to be sure that the reason the team is struggling is purely an hour&amp;#x27;s in the day and not due to other factors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bob1029</author><text>This is the only point in the article I disagreed with as well. My suggestion for the &amp;quot;falling behind&amp;quot; phase would be to buy a few days to allow the team to decompress from whatever shit coaster they are currently riding. Letting people actually unwind can help bring strategic focus and calm back into the fold.&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, this read like a documentary about my current company and product.</text></comment>