[teampractices] How deviantART organizes its work

Wed Nov 27 16:50:44 UTC 2013

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> during the interview process. Then new hires could spend their first
> weeks with a 50% time allocation to deliver one of

Pet peeve: 50% allocations suck - human beings don't work in 50%
slices. In my experience, real life work tends to either split into
lots of unrelated tasks that you context switch between all the time
(welcome to management) or primary (80%) and secondary (20%)
responsibilities.

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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation