According to the Gervais principle, managers are "clueless", and sit between "sociopath" leaders, and "losers" (engineers like me, I guess). https://www.ribbon

According to the Gervais principle, managers are "clueless", and sit between "sociopath" leaders, and "losers" (engineers like me, I guess). https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... Having discovered that it's easier to be self-effacing, the quick way to the top is just to directly contact the sociopaths (who usually just say "yes" to everything). As for requirements specifically, I believe that to make it easy, they should all be 0 or ∞, which makes it easy to test. In practice, laws of physics will add other limitations, but having a grasp of those will make it easier to articulate the design decision (e.g. we can't make that faster because it's already at the speed of light).