KarachiWalaDeveloper

Share this post

Managing Innovation and Maintenance Development

mashhoodr.substack.com

Managing Innovation and Maintenance Development

Both are important, but having the right balance is important is the teams involved.

Mashhood Rastgar
Jul 25, 2022
Share
Share this post

Managing Innovation and Maintenance Development

mashhoodr.substack.com

When managing #engineering teams - one challenge is often to balance the work between new features (innovation) and fixing bugs or adjusting older features (maintenance). This excerpt from "An Elegant Puzzle" by Will Larson is spot on about managing both aspecting from the same team rather than splitting the work between two teams.


This helps the team cycle through old and new stuff at the same time, so they have good knowledge about the old systems, and are happy to learn new things when creating the next generation stuff.

One additional tricky aspect of this is issues rolling in which need to be tackled during a sprint or feature development. Having a dedicated "hot-fix" crew (within your team) helps the team focus on their work and not get distracted by the new issues.

Thank you for reading KarachiWalaDeveloper. This post is public so feel free to share it.

Share

Thanks for reading KarachiWalaDeveloper! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

Share
Share this post

Managing Innovation and Maintenance Development

mashhoodr.substack.com
Comments
Top
New
Community

No posts

Ready for more?

© 2023 Mashhood Rastgar
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing