Software Process and Measurement Cast · Thomas M. Cagley Jr
Scaling Or Allocating - Only One Is Real, Are You A Resource, Essays and Conversation With Jeremy Berriault, SPaMCAST 852
·22 min·2 clips
Jeremy Berriault explains why calling people 'resources' is demeaning and compares it to using up natural resources.
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A grounded process discussion about finite attention and the cost of calling people resources.
Software Process and Measurement Cast 852 takes the process word "scaling" and pulls it back toward attention. Tom Cagley starts from Seth Godin's point that attention does not scale, then treats focused attention as something finite, and not the same thing as allocation.
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You want to separate a scaling problem from an allocation problem before your team starts calling people resources.
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