Now that I come to think about it, I have never seen an engineering strategy document. I think one of the key principles he’s trying to say here is that having

Now that I come to think about it, I have never seen an engineering strategy document. I think one of the key principles he’s trying to say here is that having a bad strategy is similar to no strategy. Aligned with Rumelt’s wonderful book. The big challenge for said good strategy is how certain decisions have been made. Most people just see a resulting backlog and ask questions accordingly. But if you knew the underlying strategy going into these backlog decisions, you’d focus more time on assessing if that strategy matches with the business and product needs. I think many groups would benefit from hearing about their engineering strategy from their leaders. Which seems non-existent in most places.