I am a great believer in "Software Literacy" - that software is a new form of literacy that we as society will need to ensure is as wide spread as normal literacy.
And I find more and more that using this as a lens solves lots of these sort of conundrums
What do we do with senior / principal engineers? can be translated to "what shall we do with these really good readers and writers we have hired"? The answer is not invent some parallel path in the company to have them walk around looking for solutions - they become leaders of the organisation ... or they go out.
And as for the C-suite. No CEO ever announced that "well I used to read and write but I don't have time for that anymore. I do enable my skip levels to do more reading and writing on their 20% projects however. Sometimes I dream of taking a week off in order to write something - maybe an email, like the good old days"
If the management of the organisation is spending less than half its time coding, the company does not have enough automation and will get its arse kicked by 2030
And I find more and more that using this as a lens solves lots of these sort of conundrums
What do we do with senior / principal engineers? can be translated to "what shall we do with these really good readers and writers we have hired"? The answer is not invent some parallel path in the company to have them walk around looking for solutions - they become leaders of the organisation ... or they go out.
And as for the C-suite. No CEO ever announced that "well I used to read and write but I don't have time for that anymore. I do enable my skip levels to do more reading and writing on their 20% projects however. Sometimes I dream of taking a week off in order to write something - maybe an email, like the good old days"
If the management of the organisation is spending less than half its time coding, the company does not have enough automation and will get its arse kicked by 2030