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Re:Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and... by otabdeveloper4 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:13AM (#28927704)
> So for non-technical leadership, it is hard to know if "extra time" spent on code quality actually improves anything or is a waste of time and money.

No, it's much harder for technical leadership. Technical leadership operates on opinions, fads, cargo-cult, etc., like you said.

Non-technical leadership can always fall back on business fundamentals.

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Re:Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and... by Aeolun on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:10AM (#28928881)
> Non-technical leadership can always fall back on business fundamentals.

You mean like opinions, fads, cargo-cult, etc?

Non technical leadership is just as susceptible to this. They’re just influenced by different people.

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Re:Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:16AM (#28929751)
> Non-technical leadership can always fall back on business fundamentals.

For little good it'll do them. Any input to their calculations that references the software part of their business will still come with a big "shmaybe?" attached to it, making the results just as bad.

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