Middle management is shrinking further. The Pragmatic Engineer's Pulse #162 examines the accelerating trend of flattened org structures and what that means for how engineering teams actually get work done day to day.
The issue follows a two-week gap caused by the first-ever Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco. Subscribers get early access to the summit recordings before public release, which means there is primary source material behind this issue worth consuming alongside it.
The question driving the full read: if middle managers disappear, who owns coordination, context, and accountability? The answer the piece works toward is not obvious, and the structural details make it worth opening.
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