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Interesting. We design a project inside the quarter where we committed to build it, middle managers could not possibly be fighting for dependencies during the p
by closeparen 7y ago
Interesting. We design a project inside the quarter where we committed to build it, middle managers could not possibly be fighting for dependencies during the planning cycle because engineers haven’t looked yet to see what they are.
I’ve long suspected we should be writing design docs and putting them on the shelf one or more quarters before committing to execute on them, but what do I know.
- ralmeida 7y agoAt middle-management levels, dependencies are probably more abstract than system-level dependencies. Imagine your product has no mobile app yet, but one is in the roadmap for next year. Then someone in marketing is in talks with Apple about a chance to do a demo in a keynote or something. This would bump up the priority for the mobile app for this year, but other features previously in the roadmap have to be moved around. So there’s a level of managers which will go around negotiating the options.