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# From charlest here:
# http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer
Taking platform developers and throwing them against hard goals and deadlines kills your ability to adapt. Management
and project stakeholders end up making too many decisions about the technology away from the people who know it
best – the people building it. To show progress and keep management happy, engineers shift their focus to tangible
deliverables and ignore the pieces management can't understand, like the underlying architecture. You start going
down the path of building lots of bells and whistles, but nothing solid that you can competitively leverage.
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this sounds like an error in communicating the process of innovation and blending it with the reality of making payroll.

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