I was using that term kinda loosely, I didn't mean there's nothing subjective in a decision like that. I used objective to mean the POV of the whole company, a

I was using that term kinda loosely, I didn't mean there's nothing subjective in a decision like that. I used objective to mean the POV of the whole company, and subjective to mean the views from within the departments. A salesperson says, "we need this feature because X", and a dev says, "we need k8s because Y", and someone outside those perspectives needs to decide whether X or Y is more urgent. That might happen collaboratively (all the leaders go to an offsite and come away with the same opinion) or combatively (they can't agree and the CEO has to make a tough call), and they might get it right or wrong, but they can't even attempt it if they're looking at things from the subjective view of one dept or the other. So I was asking OP, how does that happen in a "democracy" company? Presumably the employees vote on it? And if Sales has more people than IT, wouldn't that mean that the company would invest more and more in Sales even when the problems of IT are more urgent?