A plan depends on actual knowledge, relationships, and capability, not only a count of positions.
What to look for
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Inspect assumptions about who can perform specialized work.
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Treat staffing changes as changes to the delivery system.
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Notice when budgeting abstractions obscure a team’s real constraints.
Keep in mind
An argumentative essay built around the author’s observations. Do not turn its examples into individual productivity rankings.
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Review one cross-team dependency. Name the expertise it actually requires, the people who have it, and a way to reduce the knowledge concentration.
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