Engineering organizations today have ballooned to huge numbers of people, but these huge engineering organizations don’t exactly have a reputation for high velocity output. Some of this is the result of what happens with products at scale: it is just fundamentally faster and easier to iterate, improve, or change a product with 100 users than it is... See more

I don’t have evidence for it, but I intuit that scheduling is becoming an increasing challenge for more people than ever before:

• Teams are increasingly distributed


• More work is done on the go but scheduling is hard to do on mobile


• More of the workforce engages in higher cognitive activities that require significant collaboration