‘Developer Hegemony’ — which should be called ‘Information Worker Hegemony’ — makes the case for engineers being involved in planning and strategy. Most developers I’ve worked with were amazing self-starters that can get tons of stuff done by themselves. It’s the micro-managing and lack of vision that seems to have the greatest negative effect on their productivity.

As an engineer-turned-manager, I am fascinated by how poorly other departments handle planning (at our company). Devs are just amazing at getting things done when left alone, provided they know why feature X is important.

See: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35051753-developer-hegem...