And how do you make sure these super-productive adults with their optimized workflows are, you know, actually working on the right thing?
It's easy to naysay "all that traditional biz school bullshit" until it's your job to make 10 top-notch programmers who are each convinced they are great architects to all write code that somebody else is going to pay for.
until it's your job to make 10 top-notch programmers who are each convinced they are great architects to all write code that somebody else is going to pay for.
That makes no sense. That isn't your job, it's your CTO's job.
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And how do you make sure these super-productive adults with their optimized workflows are, you know, actually working on the right thing?
It's easy to naysay "all that traditional biz school bullshit" until it's your job to make 10 top-notch programmers who are each convinced they are great architects to all write code that somebody else is going to pay for.
until it's your job to make 10 top-notch programmers who are each convinced they are great architects to all write code that somebody else is going to pay for.
That makes no sense. That isn't your job, it's your CTO's job.
And if you're the CTO?
Good programmers love what they do with passion.
If you're the CTO and manage to ruin this so bad for them that "motivating the team" becomes an ongoing concern then you should be fired.