> Ultimately this leads to engineers and members of the team working on things they don’t believe in or that don’t actually move the needle and are scrapped.
Or the engineers are incentivized to mind-read leadership, since they can only beg leadership for answers to questions so many times in a sitting, which results in engineering time being wasted when it turns out said leadership didn't want a thing after all.
Trying to understand what the owners of a product actually want is of course part of the occupation of an engineer, but it's another thing when owners and leadership are of little help and fail to actually provide the company with a real direction. Too often, they are high on their own supply, and they may even rationalize turnover as just a fact of the business.
Or the engineers are incentivized to mind-read leadership, since they can only beg leadership for answers to questions so many times in a sitting, which results in engineering time being wasted when it turns out said leadership didn't want a thing after all.
Trying to understand what the owners of a product actually want is of course part of the occupation of an engineer, but it's another thing when owners and leadership are of little help and fail to actually provide the company with a real direction. Too often, they are high on their own supply, and they may even rationalize turnover as just a fact of the business.