Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament
july 2009 by mncaudill
Great article -- "It's tempting to blame the business leaders ("MBA-types") for this mess. And in a mess this big, there is certainly blame to go around. But they are pushing for the things that matter to customers - features. And they are cognizant that their funding is limited, and if they don't find out which features are absolutely critical for their customers soon, they won't be able to survive. So they are legitimately suspicious when, instead of working on adding monetization to their product, some engineer wants to take a few weeks off to go polish code that is supposed to be already done."
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july 2009 by mncaudill
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