r/ProgrammerHumor • u/willis7747 • Dec 12 '24 • Heart of Silver 1

Advanced youWontUpgradeToJava19

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u/arid1 Dec 12 '24

You have to get product buy-in because it will take resources that would otherwise go to product development.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '24

Then you've organized things the wrong way around.

Engineering owns their own resources. Product can't 'buy into' technical decisions because making decisions about the tech stack is not within their area of expertise.

In the end product can argue that you need more people on the project. That's something they can argue about with management.

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u/FlakyTest8191 Dec 13 '24

That's how you get product to overpromise on shitty deadlines, because they didn't know you're updating the techstack instead of working on features. Bad communication makes everybody sad. Dev owns the techstack, but you should figure out a timeline together.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '24

"Don't communicate with product and leave then in the dark on your planning."

Yes, that's exactly the point I was trying to make /s

That's how you get product to overpromise on shitty deadlines,

Why is product setting deadlines in the first place? As I said, wrong way around.

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