handbook VS Novo-Cantico

As of the writing of my comment, 2 days ago:

https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/commits/master/

37signals went even further, they build products for themselves first:

That's definitely true at the organizational level, and it's an argument with some merits.

In practice though, I've seen this backfire. You end up with the frontend team blocked because the API they need isn't available yet, and then the backend team gets blocked because they shipped the API but they can't use it to deliver value because the frontend team don't have the capacity to build the interface for it!

My preference is to work on mixed-skll teams that can ship a feature independently of any other team. I really like the way Basecamp describe this in their handbook: https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/how-we-work... - "In self-sufficient, independent teams".

The link: https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/pull/106

https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/63e97c8210465a5e7f1731eac76e6d9d9e20d29b/benefits-and-perks.md#profit-sharing

No more paternalistic benefits. (Benefits like fitness allowances, wellness allowances, and notably not mentioned in their blog post, charitable donation matching. Instead that's changing to 10% profit sharing. As an aside from yours truly, this means those benefits only will do as well as the company does. Company has a year with a loss? Whoops! No profits to share.).

Traditional dynamic web servers can solve a lot of the same problems that SPAs and event front-end frameworks like React solve, by just applying software engineering principles to the whole stack. That's what Novo Cantico[1] does, and a lot of what I've been trying to say in my blog posts[2] that explain Novo Cantico.

[1] https://github.com/sdegutis/Novo-Cantico