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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1568704)	10/29/2025 1:32:24 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By Eric Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1569384

Not really. Engineers live in a complex world where a single person is pretty limited in what they can do. So collaboration and "win-win" is the only way to work. Zero sum leads to project failures. Anyone who has worked for a large tech company has usually experienced this, first hand. Managers from sales for example, are really, really bad at wanting zero sum solutions. Especially when they can hog the credit. In my project management courses in pursuit of my master's, that is something that gets hammered into you. A project manager's job is to make sure that the people who make the money for the company have the resources they need to do their jobs. Exerting authority is a last resort thing, the best is to get everyone to buy in and have a stake in the success so the team gets the win. Ideally, in Agile development, the roles with authority gets rotated around. That doesn't always work for a number of reasons, but if you lose the mindset, you risk failure. There is even a concept called "egoless programming". Zero sum is usually "Me strong. You weak. Me take". Which is how chimpanzees operate.