> Overall, good engineers are so much more effective not because they produce a lot more code, but because the decisions they make save you from work you did not know could be avoided.
This is spot on, and very much my experience (of the good engineers I've come across).
Kind of : management had planned extensive and painful testing of a component that turned out to be discarded entirely (not because of functionality reduction but because it was actually unecessary).
This is spot on, and very much my experience (of the good engineers I've come across).
Kind of : management had planned extensive and painful testing of a component that turned out to be discarded entirely (not because of functionality reduction but because it was actually unecessary).