Comment by locknitpicker
2 hours ago
> I think veteran engineers have always known that the real problems with velocity have always been more organizational than technical.
I don't think this comment is fair or grounded. There are plenty of process bottlenecks that are created by developers. Unfortunately I have a hefty share of war stories where a tech lead's inability to draft a coherent and clear design resulted in project delays and systems riddled with accidental complexity required to patch the solution enough to work.
Developers are a part of the process and they are participants of both the good parts and the bad parts. If business requirements are not clear, it's the developer's job to work with product owners to arrive at said clarity.
> Unfortunately I have a hefty share of war stories where a tech lead's inability to draft a coherent and clear design resulted in project delays and systems riddled with accidental complexity required to patch the solution enough to work
This is also an organizational problem (bad hiring/personal management). If you put an incompetent individual at the helm of a project, then resources (especially time) will be spent horrendously and you will have more problems down the line. That’s true for all type of organizations and projects.