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Re:Writing an Engineering Strategy by dgb23 on Monday February 20, 2023 @06:29AM (#34867154)
To me the example reads more like a management strategy that is _about_ engineers rather than engineering strategy.

Do I fundamentally misunderstand what engineering means?

I would have expected something along the lines of explaining the goals and how to measure things like:

- performance, latency and throughput, ball park estimations

- robustness and correctness, which parts are critical and prioritized, what kinds of bugs can or cannot be tolerated, when are they being fixed

- resource usage, devices/hardware, deployment targets

And secondarily perhaps topics like:

- protocols and standards to adhere to

- open source and dependencies

- automation and tooling

- dev environments, version control

- testing and feedback loops

Re:Writing an Engineering Strategy by SheddingPattern on Monday February 20, 2023 @10:42AM (#34869145)
No, but you misunderstood the audience for an engineering strategy, namely other c-level execs.

User 'jschveibinz' describes it well.