Re: And now we get to the ...
I don't know about your company, but for my products I'm much happier when senior management is not involved in the detailed engineering decisions, since, you know, I'd like the product to actually work. Andy Grove was a great engineer in his time. but by the time he was a C-level creature even he knew that he had to stay away from a lot of the actual design.
Middle management can be a crapshoot. Sometimes you get that rare individual who can find his arse with both hands, but often you can't. It's director level and above that forgets everything they've ever learned about engineering since they haven't been allowed to touch the tools for so long that they're only allowed to play company politics and sell their wares anymore. It's the middle management that's trying to transition to Director and above who's the most dangerous link in the chain.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
