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Disclaimer: MS dev. I was with this post until I got to the very end. Seriously, you think this is a dev/team issue? You never once question the incentives at play here? I'd have not been surprised by the standard "throw the engineers under the bus" response from someone outside tech, but if you work in the space, I would have expected better. You nail it in sentence two. THE COMPANY chose to use azure. You do not. A…
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This is another argument for need more democratically controlled, worker-owned enterprises. There shouldn't be a situation where this is possible [As VPs/Directors have told me on multiple occasions "we sell to the decision makers." And with how short-term decision making is for most companies, ESPECIALLY large/public ones, it's very easy to make that sale via "no one ever got fired for..."/bundle deals/incentives/et…
Yesbut… is it true? MSFT is very successful long-term. You’re making an assumption that teams having control over their work will lead to better quality of product (which i agree) and then (I assume you predict), in return, will result in better financial performance. But is that true? I am not so sure. I worked in some banks and it is very easy to come up with better products for consumers… that will make less reven…