Yep to both. For years I've been a practicing engineer who manages. Surprising similar strategies: pick an ideal target state; get buy-in from stake holders (f

Yep to both. For years I've been a practicing engineer who manages. Surprising similar strategies: pick an ideal target state; get buy-in from stake holders (fellow engineers or business people); come up with a multi-step plan with milestones; get started. If the milestones aren't getting completed and the target isn't measurably closer, you have a problem. Rewriting the code over the weekend doesn't work. Using positional power to decree changes doesn't work either. Well, if either of those work then it wasn't that serious of a change anyway.