Re:What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional...
by stevegalla on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:52PM
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If development is in product, how long has development been in product? Is this a recent change where development was transitioned from IT to product during a recent transformation?
Not directed at you, just some general comments.
As someone hinted at in another comment, it seems a better (less dichotomous) framing is:
- tech first (developer lead, selling software or hardware),
- tech enabled (developers are a key collaborator with the business, e.g., logistics, manufacturing, ecomm, marketing, really every company should be), or
- tech as a cost center (the “traditional” company in the article).
What about the trifecta of product, engineering, and design advocated for by Marty Cagan?
I think the same argument that’s being made for giving developers more weight in the development process could be argued equally as well from the side of design.
Not directed at you, just some general comments.
As someone hinted at in another comment, it seems a better (less dichotomous) framing is:
- tech first (developer lead, selling software or hardware),
- tech enabled (developers are a key collaborator with the business, e.g., logistics, manufacturing, ecomm, marketing, really every company should be), or
- tech as a cost center (the “traditional” company in the article).
What about the trifecta of product, engineering, and design advocated for by Marty Cagan?
I think the same argument that’s being made for giving developers more weight in the development process could be argued equally as well from the side of design.
Edit for formatting.