> The most valuable engineers raise problems and alert/pursuade owners of the business to issues before they are issues. This has nothing to do with the issue

> The most valuable engineers raise problems and alert/pursuade owners of the business to issues before they are issues. This has nothing to do with the issue and carries a distasteful implication. Engineering value is (somehow) less about problems being solved at the tail end of development; like before a release. A sufficiently large project will have problems. The weight of these problems are a business issue, as much as an engineering issue. One of these groups makes the decisions about what to do. What could be done in design and implementation, isn't relevant once the decision is made about what to do.