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I hope this article raises visibility of this mindset in engineering management. I’ve always found product management very appreciative of the product-minded en
by quantified 7y ago
I hope this article raises visibility of this mindset in engineering management. I’ve always found product management very appreciative of the product-minded engineer, but engineering management to be apathetic at best. Engineering management is responsible for the engineer’s career, so their ability to make the politics work out is critical. For example, minimum viable needs to be viable, which costs more than the minimum that engineering was incented to deliver.
- LegitGandalf 7y agoAgreed. Most organizations I've been involved in will reward engineers for creating 20k lines of code that don't solve a relevant problem over the Product Engineer who creates 5k lines that solves valuable problems. The Product Engineer Genba'd out of the building to see what was needed and created the right thing, but since engineering management is often myopically focused on metrics disconnected from value the Product Engineer is significantly undervalued. Combining ability with domain knowledge is extremely valuable, and a significant portion of domain knowledge is gained by stepping away from the keyboard. Lean borrows the Japanese word Genba to describe this, which means 'actual place' or 'scene of the crime' and this Product Minded Engineer is somebody who is willing to Genba!
- quelltext 7y agoWhy did they have to use 現場? Wouldn't "in the field" suffice as a term here? https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/in-the-field/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/in-the-field/
- LegitGandalf 7y agoFrom my understanding lean came out of Japan, so some language seeped in. I like to use it because sadly in-the-field has negative connations to a lot of software engineers from being deployed on site via white hot angry customer escalation. Tldr; Genba's got no ptsd!