---
title: "How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-big-tech-runs-tech-projects-and-the-curious-absence-of-scrum-dcqvtkil5
source_url: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/project-management-at-big-tech/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2022-06-12T11:37:03.370Z
updated: 2023-10-04T02:18:19.761Z
tags: ["agile", "big-tech", "startup"]
reading_time: 27
upvotes: 34
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 27 min read · 34 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Project management is a topic most people have strong opinions on, and I’m no exception. To answer the question of how different companies run engineering projects, I pulled in help from across the industry. In this issue we’ll cover:Project management approaches across the Industry. Project management at Big Tech. How are these done? How does the organizational setup of Big Tech influence how projects are executed?

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@matteosacchetto** · 1 upvotes

> Really interesting read! I personally find that this post does a great job on showing different approaches that company have in dealing with the management of product development
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> I highly suggest everyone to read this post as it may bring up some points you never thought of
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> My personal take out from this read is tha often times imposing a strict management process ends up creating a not so stimulating environment and sometimes it is better to let the engineers do their job and handle themselves the management instead of having dedicated project managers which may not be so involved in the...

**@mailingdelgado** · 0 upvotes

> Nice read!

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Tags: [#agile](https://daily.dev/tags/agile), [#big-tech](https://daily.dev/tags/big-tech), [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup)

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