"Managers are the real architects," concludes manager
"Managers are the real architects," concludes manager
For reference (as per Wikipedia):
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.
— Melvin E. Conway
Imagine interpreting that as advice on how you should try to design things, lol.
Tbf, I think most of the post is just typical LinkedIn fluff, but I didn't want to take the poor fellow out of context.
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Sure, show me the manager who wants to subordinate their own career and status to the good of the users, and has the managerial competence to design a team accordingly. (Okay, Meredith Whittaker might be one. Name another.)
Otherwise, y'all still best off drawing projects out of the noisy nonsense anarchy of open source.
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Thanks for introducing me to Meredith Whittaker - what a remarkable woman.
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I feel like you're probably making a very good point but I can't quite tell what it is.
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Managers typically have local incentives that lead away from doing good things with their control of organizational architecture.
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