> One has to understand, developers like in any other creative industry can go off on a tangent by themselves if not given direction explicitly, sometimes that

> One has to understand, developers like in any other creative industry can go off on a tangent by themselves if not given direction explicitly, sometimes that means being very much assertive and firm. One also has to understand that there ways of achieving this without falling back to command-and-control models of management. I spent 2.5 years in Pivotal Labs before switching to Cloud R&D. My interpretation of the doctrine I imbibed is that no line of code exists until a test justifies its existence, no test exists unless a story justifies its existence, no story exists unless Product and Design have done some legwork with real users to say yes, this make their lives better. The system works on trust and empathetic mutual professionalism. And it works very bloody well.