This is s pretty great article by a seemingly thoughtful individual. I hope more technology leaders read it and understand if not embrace the ideas it promotes.

This is s pretty great article by a seemingly thoughtful individual. I hope more technology leaders read it and understand if not embrace the ideas it promotes. Too often, I've been in the situation where a new leader will step into a role and immediately start throwing out commandments with little context as it relates to the business. An Ivory tower is built with the help of minions, assigned unwillingly or willingly bought in to the Grand Plan. Not seeing the immediate business value of the project, most teams avoid it or do the minimum work necessary to satisfy the requirements. Literally every time this happens, after about a year the Ivory tower remains up but is depopulated, a forgotten relic of a distant past that nobody really wants to think about. The leaders move on to the next role, and when new engineers ask senior engineers why the Ivory tower exists they smile and say: "buy me a beer; t'is a long tale"