its socio-technical. you have to balance the legitimate desire to leave people agency, but get them all on the same page. people don't like it these days, but c

its socio-technical. you have to balance the legitimate desire to leave people agency, but get them all on the same page. people don't like it these days, but consensus does wonders. what _is_ purely social and hasn't been discussed here is the role a senior developer takes in shielding the team from organizational corruption. that's a much harder and painful task, and while the former gets easier as the team develops trust, the latter never seems to