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I see this going in several directions. 1. The most obvious direction is that everything slows down in development. Innovation is killed in established busines

I see this going in several directions. 1. The most obvious direction is that everything slows down in development. Innovation is killed in established businesses, startups need more initial investment. 2. If startups are not affected like in the EU, then there will be an explosion of them as large companies outsource their innovation or spin off their own startups. Innovation within large companies will still suffer. Maybe that's a good thing. 3. Greater focus is put into fewer projects to develop a stronger ecosystem and engineering culture so that we can increase productivity and still have time for strong standards. Might end up like 1 anyways.

phoehne 3y ago
Sometimes slowing down and better process and standards are two parts of the same coin. While unit testing might speed you up on net, creating design specs, design reviews, architecture reviews, control boards for configuration changes, etc. slow things down. Sometimes in a useless way and sometimes in a good way. It all depends. But I doubt the EU would be any more lax over time.
thunky 3y ago
4. Nowhere, after spending an enormous amount of money. And it could spawn a boom for compliance consultancies that can maneuver the regulations and check the boxes on behalf of companies so that they can remain free from liability. All without any meaningful impact.
- pipo234 3y ago
  Unfortunately, I concur that this is the most likely outcome. I would love to believe we could inch a little toward: > 3. Greater focus is put into fewer projects to develop a stronger ecosystem and engineering culture [...] A hopeful sign might be stuff like PCI compliance: major impact on velocity, money wasted on consultants, brain-dead training and project managers, but also much less catastrophes than what might have been. But it's just as likely it goes the SLA-way, where promises and legal documents paint some desirable level of control that in reality does not exist, just because asses need covering.
fallingknife 3y ago
> large companies outsource their innovation or spin off their own startups Large companies will love this because now they can pay their engineers with options on the "startup" which will most likely fail rather than RSUs on the main company which are as good as cash.

phoehne 3y ago

Sometimes slowing down and better process and standards are two parts of the same coin. While unit testing might speed you up on net, creating design specs, design reviews, architecture reviews, control boards for configuration changes, etc. slow things down. Sometimes in a useless way and sometimes in a good way. It all depends. But I doubt the EU would be any more lax over time.

thunky 3y ago

4. Nowhere, after spending an enormous amount of money. And it could spawn a boom for compliance consultancies that can maneuver the regulations and check the boxes on behalf of companies so that they can remain free from liability. All without any meaningful impact.

pipo234 3y ago
Unfortunately, I concur that this is the most likely outcome. I would love to believe we could inch a little toward: > 3. Greater focus is put into fewer projects to develop a stronger ecosystem and engineering culture [...] A hopeful sign might be stuff like PCI compliance: major impact on velocity, money wasted on consultants, brain-dead training and project managers, but also much less catastrophes than what might have been. But it's just as likely it goes the SLA-way, where promises and legal documents paint some desirable level of control that in reality does not exist, just because asses need covering.

fallingknife 3y ago

> large companies outsource their innovation or spin off their own startups Large companies will love this because now they can pay their engineers with options on the "startup" which will most likely fail rather than RSUs on the main company which are as good as cash.