Yeah, right! "I can articulate precisely what problem I'm trying to solve" is not just on that person. It is a function of their collaborators – product/progra

Yeah, right! "I can articulate precisely what problem I'm trying to solve" is not just on that person. It is a function of their collaborators – product/program/engineering managers and other engineers around them. If you are in a culture where it is acceptable to send tasks at each other without much context, and with harsh deadlines, and with a perf management system that rewards execution under such conditions, then you will get precisely the opposite of someone who can articulate what problem they are trying to solve. In fact you will get a culture where asking questions for deeper 'why' understanding will be seen as disruptive.