I take the constructive approach, I really only care about the problems that are holding up shipping, that impact critical path... however you want to define th

I take the constructive approach, I really only care about the problems that are holding up shipping, that impact critical path... however you want to define that. It's the set of problems on the "other side" that are causing delays that are the ones I care about. The ones that don't cause delay I don't mind. It's only constructive to focus on that which holds us up, slows us down. Then I want to fix those. The frustrations stem really from the wedge that we collectively seem to shove between engineering and other parts of a company, including middle-management (or worse, that we destroy middle-management and lack well-seasoned processes that actually help). The walls we've built within companies, between skill sets, leads to a powerlessness to get things done faster, better.