The Middle-Manager Rotation: A Modest Proposal, Or Possibly A DevOps Parable

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(This is almost-verbatim a memo I recently sent to company leadership.) If we think the on-call rotation is working well and is an efficient use of personnel, I’d like to propose we fire all the middle-managers and replace the current management structure with an analogous “middle-manager rotation.” My team’s developers spend—on average—about one day each month on-call for…

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