I've never felt the need to justify my own existence. There's always been a longer backlog of work than my teams would ever get through and managers who appreci

I've never felt the need to justify my own existence. There's always been a longer backlog of work than my teams would ever get through and managers who appreciated the work getting done. Another plausible explanation is lack of code re-use and reinventing the wheel because you don't know someone else solved the same problem. Also correlates with number of engineers.