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Working at.. a very popular HW company.. I'll say that we(the SW folks) are currently obsessed with 'doing something' even if the thing we're doing hasn't fully
by 01100011 2y ago
Working at.. a very popular HW company.. I'll say that we(the SW folks) are currently obsessed with 'doing something' even if the thing we're doing hasn't fully been proven to have benefits outside of some narrow use cases or targeted benchmarks. It's very frustrating, but no one wants to put the time in to do the research up front. It's easier to just move forward with a new project because upper management stays happy and doesn't ask questions.
- usrusr 2y agoIs it that expectation of major updates coming in at a fixed cycle? Not only expected by upper management but also by end users? That's a difficult trap to get out of. I wonder if that will be the key benefit of Google's switch to two "major" Android releases each year: it will get people used to nothing newsworthy happening within a version increment. And I also wonder if that's intentional, and my guess is not the tiniest bit.
- 01100011 2y agoYeah, we've made great progress and folks are used to it. Now we've got to deliver but most of the low-hanging fruit has been picked(some of it also incurred tech debt).
- markus_zhang 2y agoDo you have new software managers/directors who are encouraging such behavior? From my experience new leaders tend to lean on this tactics to grab power.
- 01100011 2y agoStrangely no. Our management hasn't really changed in several years. Expectations have risen though and we've picked a lot of the low-hanging fruit. We also failed to invest in our staffing and so we don't have enough experienced devs to actually do the work now.