[briancary]

Great insights here. I think there is a common pattern - one that I've experienced as well. Growing a new piece of technology with no customers to an evolved product that scales and has a growing engineering team behind it introduces lots of new issues that have to be dealt with. I'm not necessarily a process freak, but from my experience, having a few solid processes really goes a long way and should be put in place early. Especially revolving around communication of issues and development priorities. When there's a major fire or conflict on teams, there's a big microscope that should be looked through in order to add improvements that will help a company get past future stages of growth more smoothly.

[rhizome]

That pattern is called the Red Queen Syndrome and can be paraphrased thus: solving problems uncovers other problems.