alt Hacker NewsI buy that product and design are bottlenecks. I don't buy that engineering is not also a bottleneck.
Engineers like to claim everyone else is their problem, when in fact, it's often the case that engineers are their own problem.
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9rx • yesterday at 9:55 PM
> I don't buy that engineering is not also a bottleneck.
Depends. It definitely can be. When you get those people who want to spend weeks going back and forth over whether the button should be red or slightly darker red, as if they can somehow figure out the right answer from gut feeling alone, not realizing that in that time they could have tried both and learned from it, all while delivering other things of value on top, engineering has no hope of becoming the bottleneck.
Engineering is never the bottleneck… until it is. I have at this very moment months of completed design features that engineering should have already implemented if they were not in a constant churn of refactoring, reorganizing and spiking to fix self-inflicted defects.
Bottlenecks happen everywhere.