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The Power of Fluid Teams

Robert Ecker on February 23, 2017

Do you know this exciting feeling when you work on your own side project? The incredible motivation when you work on it and this magical feeling wh...
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Ben Halpern

I try to push for this sort of thing with our plans for future dev.to development. So much of its success has been as the result of really doing what I felt passionate about, and we will need to keep this up as we grow. I think it's for the best.

Just today, I implemented the site's search functionality from start to finish without consulting anybody and now it's in production. As teams grow, it becomes more challenging, but I agree with the philosophy.

Fred George preaches the concept of developer anarchy, which is sort of the same idea.

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Robert Ecker

I think if you establish this kind of culture from the beginning it's much easier than completely turning around the company later! Nice to hear that you actually plan to do this :)

I haven't heard of Fred George's concept of developer anarchy before. Thanks for the hint, sounds very interesting!

By the way: I like the new search feature ;-)