Sure there is a way, hire good people, fire bad people , give them wide guardrails and hold them accountable for results.

Hire people based on their proven ability to deal with ambiguity and gets things done. Like Joel Spolsky said, the only hiring criteria is if they are smart and get things done.

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t43562 18 hours ago | parent [-]

With unlimited budgets and American employment law perhaps .. or if you're in a startup and have the luxury of beginning from scratch.

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scarface_74 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Most businesses don’t need rockstar ninja developers. They just need professionals who give a damn. That doesn’t mean have “passion” and work 60 hours a week or filter based on people who can reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard.

Ordinary enterprise CRUD “senior” developers don’t cost that much especially if you hire remotely.

No offense to enterprise devs intended. That’s what most developers are who work in the US as was I for the first 25 years of my career.

	▲	t43562 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My problem, when I was hiring for my company about year ago, was with not having the money to get people like that. This was in the UK of course and this year the employers seem to have a big advantage thanks to world events.