Is There a Tops Down Approach?

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Most of us have been steeped in a bottom up way of working, and weve recognized that tops down planning is actually really, really, really difficult to go do to get right. So i think where we're shifting back from bottoms up agile to a more mid tier everything. And the broad band of jority decisions are made in the middle. We'll never, i don't think we'll ever go back to topsdown because i think people recognize how bad that is.

In the first episode of Developing Leadership, Eiso Kant and Jason Warner talk about how the roles and perceptions of engineers and engineering leaders have changed over the decades. From the catastrophic offshoring trend of the early 2000s to the golden age of development, the tools, the processes and the culture shifts. Eiso and Jason share their experiences in the world of tech and the lessons that have stayed with them through the years.

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