Visionaries vs. The Frankensteins
February 27, 2021 Leave a comment
In big companies, based on my experience, there’s so much friction between product and development teams. The #1 reason for this divide is ‘organizational culture’. While the product, leadership, and marketing teams are wearing one hat, the development teams’ mind is in a totally different world.
Below are some differences – I leave it to the reader to conclude which teams are on what side of the culture spectrum. It’s up to the leadership team to fix the divide.
The Visionaries
- Have critical thinking abilities
- Focus on the future
- Take calculated risks
- Experiment a lot
- Learn from failures
- Experts in iterative development and course corrections
- Project goal is important than personal goals
- Understand that personal growth is a byproduct of successful products
- Own failures and deflect credit for successes to everyone who contributed
- Work with the frankensteins, have no time to find fault with them
The Frankensteins
- Are mostly into binary thinking
- Expect every line of code to reach production
- Expect every product to become successful
- Averse to risk taking
- Scared of failures
- Get trapped in unproductive biases
- Always working for a visionary, yet finding faults with visionaries!
- Attach themselves with successful projects and detach from the failures
- Personal and team goals are important than product goals
- Do similar work every day, get monthly paycheck, repeat