The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer

(refactoring.fm)

12 points | by lucidplot 12 hours ago ago

10 comments

  • jgbuddy 12 hours ago ago

    Just don't work for non-technical people, problem solved. They're usually less successful anyways

    • thesumofall 12 hours ago ago

      I‘m a technical exec and most of the advice rings true. Somewhere the translation from technical goals to business goals has to happen. Good leads will help with that and good engineers will come prepared

      • pan69 9 hours ago ago

        > Somewhere the translation from technical goals to business goals has to happen.

        Should it not be the other way around?

        • fragmede 8 hours ago ago

          Not if you're dogfooding. Technical goal: Add Redis. Business case: Quick search is slow. make it fast.

  • ale 12 hours ago ago

    If you’re a CTO who needs and engineering translator then maybe you’re the wrong person for the role.

    • aturek 12 hours ago ago

      From TFA:

      > Many CTOs, like me, have a strong engineering background, and so I will understand some of the requests you make without needing further explanation.

    • jet98 12 hours ago ago

      Amen

  • KK7NIL 12 hours ago ago

    I was expecting this to be a transformer model fine-tuned to translate engineering to exec speak.

    • lucidplot 12 hours ago ago

      how hard could that really be to implement

  • lucidplot 12 hours ago ago