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The trick seems to be convincing your best engineers to work on unsexy products that have long lifetimes. Everybody would rather spearhead the new iPhone XI pr
by newsbinator 9y ago
The trick seems to be convincing your best engineers to work on unsexy products that have long lifetimes.
Everybody would rather spearhead the new iPhone XI project, than spearhead the "add 10% to the battery life on 4-year old MacBooks" project.
You'd need an incentive program to offset fame/pride. For example, "150% pay for working on non-sexy projects" or "additional points for tangible improvements or bug fixes to legacy code".
- virgilp 9y ago> You'd need an incentive program Also called "salary increases", "promotions" and "bonuses". Not just for the people who do the sexy new projects. Because let's face it - you're being rewarded far better in a corporation for releasing something new, than for fixing something old. And keeping something old working perfectly with no issue? Well, nobody hears about you, so probably you're not doing anything, you're lucky if you're not fired. (I'm exaggerating, of course; but unfortunately, not much)
- mamcx 9y agoOr reframe the attitude that suport your loyal customers is bad.