Chapter 9 Help, I’m Sinking—Controlling growth
“Here’s the deal: anyone who works past 6:00 pm will get free dinner ordered in. If anyone wants to bring their family in for dinner at 6:00 so that they can work at least two more hours, they are welcome to do so, and we’ll buy them dinner too,” I said. I was standing in front of a wall full of projects and tasks in a crowded room filled with thirty engineers. Our planning board (we used a method of Kanban planning) was filled to the brim. We were behind schedule on most of the projects under way, and we had more than six major projects going at once. From the development of our new product to a massive new software product to a new mobile version and even some crazy projects like VoIP inside our ...
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