Podcast 040
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Intro, advertising
[01:00]Spolsky: It's just like you're playing with your AM radio and you just tuned in on a station and it was in the middle of something
Lopp: That's awesome.
Spolsky: That's the illusion we're trying to create. We had an anemone die today.
Lopp: An anemone ?
Spolsky:Yep
Lopp: What color was it, are they all brown or green or what's the deal ?
Spolsky: I don't know it was like multi-colored, they're like brown green, they've got little tentacles
Lopp: Does an anemone float when it dies, or is it just sad and on the bottom ?
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Atwood: ... I'm kind of curious how big are the groups you're managing ?
Lopp: I moved into the senior management role which is a managing managers which is a whole other ball of wax, so yeah that what's the next book is going to be called
Spolsky: Managing documents
Atwood: It's going to be called: "I'm screwed"
Lopp: But it's fascinating because its more like management than engineering is like management but it's a very different role, whereas anywhere we won't go there. So the teams are anywhere from, I actually have a magic number of about 7 where I feel is the point that you can get it all done and over that given that the team is sort of normal.
Over 7 or so it's just too many people and people aren't getting the attention they need to kind of grow and do that.
