Nobody needs a human router
Over the last decade, much has changed in the role of engineering management. Through the 2010s into the peak of Covid in 2021, for many, the role began to optimize for one thing. That one thing was moving information around. Managers translated context upwards from the team and decisions downwards from leadership, honing their craft on smoothing the friction between individuals and their priorities and whims, and dancing around ceremony-heavy ways of working. Sometimes it […]