Corporate is soul crushing. Didn’t have to be this way as we Claremont/Drucker folk well know. Especially publicly traded entities. At this point I’d rather work for a government agency, maybe even back to academia. No money but at least there’s less utter bullshit.
When it comes to building software, especially the stuff we need the most, shit that’s not fucking sexy, a word I despise when applied to tech, we have become so collectively dumb it’s like a bullshit bubble. Will the fucker burst or do we have to have more meltdowns like Southwest and others who have flown under the radar.
Product management is bullshit. Agile is hardly a thing. Scrum is garbage. Yes, I’m generalizing based on decades of experience. And yes, that shit can work when done properly.
Give me back the other (old?!) stuff.
Business analysis. Projects managed and led by expert generalists. Requirements documented – in words – technical, functional, architectural. Annotated wireframes. Working prototypes. Specialists – creative, design, engineering. Teams built on relationships. Culture grows around how work gets done.
Just like Drucker said ‘culture east strategy for breakfast’ but I’d also like to point out that a strategy cannot include hope as a tactic cuz all that does is create an environment without clear direction on how to accomplish much other than have a lotta movement. Might be movement in the right direction but how do you know? Drucker had one for that, too. Work on the right things at the right time. Topics for another day.