Engineers are Good, Leadership is Bad
Pros
- Generally the engineering group cares about the products they create - Most developers have the desire to improve development practices - Usage of many standards and movement from proprietary to standard practices - Increasingly better CI/CD - Great Devops group
Cons
- Basically every project has a year or less to go from concept to completion, even large projects - "Ramp up Mentality" - all projects can be solved by throwing more developers at it, usually outsourced developers - Engineering is usually not involved in defining deliverable dates or able to set expectations of deliverables - Even if a deliverable date is completely unrealistic there is a "hold the line" mentality - Leadership has openly stated in company all hands meetings that deliverable dates don't move, instead you as the employee must find some way to innovate to overcome the problem, keeping the original deliverable date - Because no deliverable date is reached all projects are late taking up time of future projects - Increasing reliance on outsourced developers who have no ownership of the product and rely heavily on a small amount of Domain Experts - Shrinking local engineering teams - Team leaders have become glorified Project managers - Lack of project managers/project owners - Poorly written EPS documents that don't express the needs of the project - Lack of review of EPS Documents leading to misdirected development - Lack of consideration of engineer feedback-
