The current situation on the software development market it terrible: programmers are spoiled by large salaries and very high demand. They know that their managers can't really do anything with them, can't make them work faster or better, can't fire them, and can't enforce any discipline. Large companies, like Google or Facebook, have the luxury of buying 10 times more programmers than they really need, that's how they solve their productivity problems. However, if you don't have that amount of money, you must not manage your programmers the way Google does it. You need a better management formula. Which one? Microtasking from Zerocracy is one of the options. Use it or invent your own one, but don't copy Google.

The video is here: https://youtu.be/XQQoaBZEs38