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It's pretty demotivating to have "leaders" who ignore every technical expert in their organization jumping up and down, waving their arms, shouting "Don't buy t
by jcadam 7y ago
It's pretty demotivating to have "leaders" who ignore every technical expert in their organization jumping up and down, waving their arms, shouting "Don't buy that!"
Happens all the time, though.
- rednerrus 7y agoI just went through this and more than half of the team has quit since.
- Unsimplified 7y agoWhat do you think most compels these people to force thru their buying/highlvl decisions despite strong technical pushback? Ego defense? Desire to participate in the actual work to seem they know what they're leading? Tunnel visioning that they are the CXO in charge of biz and devaluing engineer input in biz-connected decisions?
- commandlinefan 7y agoOr, after they've gone ahead and bought it, "don't force us to shoehorn our revenue-generating functionality into this steaming pile of garbage!"