Zero tolerance for prod issues
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I'd include on the Death Spiral By Stupid MBA list:
- Measuring productivity by lines of code, number of commits, ticket count, or story points.
- Firing people for making normal human mistakes
- Offshoring development work to developing countries to save money
- Relying on contracting companies to build your core product
- Rarely or never giving staff raises or promotions... to save money
- Stack-ranking staff or otherwise creating career incentives for self-centered employee behavior
- Micromanaging staff or burying them in process B.S.
- Insisting employees have to always be in the office... especially late at night or on weekends
- Walking around the office always striking up conversations with technical staff in heads-down work... or demanding fast responses by Slack constantly
- Doing something that clearly breaks the law and expecting it'll never be reported (AKA the Uber problem)
- Building "cool" technology with no idea of how to make it profitable (see: AI today, Blockchain a few years ago)
- Hiring people they know or like rather than people that are capable
- Hiring "brilliant assholes"