Saw this meme in the monthly Ramen Club newsletter and it made me laugh because it's so true!
For any non-technical founders or marketing teams working with devs don't believe them, stay toxic 😉
I can't write a line of code but after 4 years of working closely with a real mix of engineers you begin to get a gauge of how long things take with regards to changing the product.
In many cases, these are some of the smartest and capable people I've ever worked with.
When we've been up against it, I've literally seen theme move mountains, metaphorically (and in some cases literally, digitally speaking), in the shortest time frame and saving the day 🏔
Sure it's not best practice but sometimes things come up, especially in the early days before you have solid processes.
I recently caught up with a friend who is a VP of Product at $66bn+ company and he told me "your temporary fixes will be your permanent solutions" and I felt that!
You hear a lot about how to manage relationships with technical teams but for me by far the most effective way to motivate them to do anything with urgency is to bring them onto calls with clients. So they can hear the feature requests from the source.
Sure you could argue you are losing "$100 every hour" they aren't coding but trust me they probably aren't coding every hour anyway.
The productivity increase you get from their excitement knowing what they are actually building is making an impact will give you 10x the returns.
Sorry to further expose you software engineers out there... please know I'm a big fan and I just wish I was smart enough to do what you do! 🥲
