Today, we find that there is a common tendency in larger organizations for management and oversight of development projects to be given greater importance than the actual creation of value by people writing, iterating on, and shipping code. It’s not always the case, and sometimes the lowly developer might feel like he or she is a forgotten asset, an opinion with no basis. The C-suite’s focus on longer-term strategies can, however, sometimes lead to an over-emphasis on process and management, instead of real-world code creation. And that’s a problem.
