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Management often gets rewarded for new "launches", and rarely for things that already worked continuing to work. To some degree, so does the business (although
by derf_ 2y ago
Management often gets rewarded for new "launches", and rarely for things that already worked continuing to work. To some degree, so does the business (although a track record of things continuing to work over a long period has value, if anyone has a time horizon beyond the next quarterly report). Meanwhile, it is more difficult to measure productivity for maintenance work, because the primary work product is understanding. Managers with the skill and experience to recognize and compensate for this are rare. Developers are not blind to these incentives.
- marcosdumay 2y ago> To some degree, so does the business Sorry, but that part is wrong. The business gets rewarded for doing the same thing that was already working again and again and again. Nobody goes out of their way to buy innovative things. It's even worse, customers tend to avoid new things until they had enough time to show themselves as "not new anymore" or "more of the same". There are incredibly few exceptions, and most of them are created artificially at the cost of a large publicity budget.