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This is a failure of management, as is your skype example. Balancing the risk of litigation against risk to the product is management's job. In both of these c
by throwaway09223 6y ago
This is a failure of management, as is your skype example.
Balancing the risk of litigation against risk to the product is management's job. In both of these cases the risk is somewhere between minimal and non-existent.
Big companies tend to have bad management. There are entire libraries of books analyzing why this is the case but the short story is "risk aversion." Employees are incentivized to save their own skin and avoid conflict at work over improving the product.
Sometimes public outcry can create a new risk and change the direction of management.
- suchnonsense 6y agoSuch nonsense, balancing risk of litigation against the risk to the product isn't management's job. Companies have whole departments for this, called risk management with people specialized on the matter. This is not done by some random manager.
- throwaway09223 6y agoDepartments specializing in risk related to mooning emoji? I think not. Your username is apropos. Repetitive rule based risk assessments, such as made by lenders, are often assigned to specialized departments. This isn't at all the same as unique product design choices which are nearly always decided by the individual product leaders. Legal might rope in higher levels of leadership but never a "risk management team" for something like an offensive icon in an app.