The Strategic Decision: Why Senior Engineers Sometimes Let Flawed Projects Fail
When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that…
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