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Without contradicting "in general", my anecdotal experience is that even well-oiled teams with good internal communication and team spirit can have bad technolo
by ben_w 11mo ago
Without contradicting "in general", my anecdotal experience is that even well-oiled teams with good internal communication and team spirit can have bad technologies that end a business.
You may well be correct about the general case: I've not witnessed cat-herding, the closest was managment constantly chasing new shinies and one time forgetting to tell the devs about the latest change.
- gbuk2013 11mo agoI was absolutely only speaking “in general”. Even with 20 years in the industry my experience can only be anecdotal given that I only had time to work with fewer than 10 companies. :) That said, I suspect a bad technical decision may have people and communication causes and not fixing the problem once it is apparent is definitely rooted in these. Technical debt and leadership vacuum are both interesting and intertwined hard problems.