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Engineering by Management

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Michael Hooten
Apr 24, 2023
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Designing anything is hard, even if it’s just an update to something that already exists. Sometimes that’s even harder than starting from scratch, because preserving the good and fixing the bad is not always as straightforward as it sounds. Sometimes you sell the bug as an added feature, like in the above meme.

It also doesn’t help when management or—shu…

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