Re:Becoming a CTO
by ethbro on Friday October 14, 2016 @01:03PM
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> With that loss in innovation companies suddenly find a comparable feature that took 2 weeks taking 2 months.
No offense to the mentioned, but the "ideas are like assholes, everyone has one" comment seems to apply extremely accurately to non-technical design and product teams who are blessed by management to throw things over to "those technical people" without any concern.
And why would a 2 week task not take 2 months under that structure? If your high-performing, creative engineers are sisyphean implementers of someone else's features without some empowerment, ownership, and accolades for the end result, good luck retaining them.
No offense to the mentioned, but the "ideas are like assholes, everyone has one" comment seems to apply extremely accurately to non-technical design and product teams who are blessed by management to throw things over to "those technical people" without any concern.
And why would a 2 week task not take 2 months under that structure? If your high-performing, creative engineers are sisyphean implementers of someone else's features without some empowerment, ownership, and accolades for the end result, good luck retaining them.