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> Yet there are still those in senior leadership who openly question why our team hasn't delivered the features they want. Is this _really_ so hard for stakeh
by tomrod 3y ago
> Yet there are still those in senior leadership who openly question why our team hasn't delivered the features they want.
Is this _really_ so hard for stakeholders to understand? I've found some limited success by dual-boating -- upgrading as features are created. "We can't build this feature without an upgrade" carries a lot of weight -- but sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and demand an upgrade.
Are stakeholders completely oblivious to the existential threat to their bonus if their company is hacked and driven to bankruptcy in lawsuits? Sure some bigs can avoid this, but not the mids and smalls.
- tessierashpool 3y agoIs this _really_ so hard for stakeholders to understand? for decades now, every generation of programmers has been larger than the previous one. every generation of engineering managers has probably grown in a proportionate way. so, for decades now, every generation of engineering managers has been learning the same basic "how software differs from manufacturing" lessons over and over again. (partly because business schools don't seem to have learned this lesson yet even once.)
- TeMPOraL 3y agoWait, is this the "amount of programmers in the industry doubles every ${not many} years, therefore software development is dominated by fresh juniors who know fuck all about anything" argument, but applied to engineering management? Can't find the sources for the OG argument about programmers, but it does sound plausible.
- ozim 3y agoSorry but do you have an example of a company that got hacked and driven to bankruptcy by lawsuits? Most of what people see in open are companies that get hacked, share price dips for a month or two if it is software company, if it is non software company share price does not even dip. Okta went down quite a lot since 2022 but still far away from bankrupt and latest "hack" did not move it that much really. Where in my opinion (as a tech person) they should be out of business already even after slightest "hack". Microsoft Azure latest hack did not really affect their stock...
- fzeroracer 3y agoCode Spaces, for one. Larger companies can survive a hack yes, but many smaller companies get buried. Not always due to lawsuits but due to critical infrastructure failures.
- jusssi 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastaamo_data_breach https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastaamo_data_breach Not sure if the actual cause of bankruptcy was lawsuits, action by authorities, or just loss of business caused by the publicity.
- ozim 3y agoCool story and nice part that GDPR being toothless is not true: *In April 2023, Helsinki District Court did sentence the ex-CEO of Vastaamo, Ville Tapio, to a three-month suspended sentence. It found him guilty of a data protection crime mandated in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).*