Is engineering strategy useful?
While I frequently hear engineers bemoan a missing strategy,
they rarely complete the thought by articulating why the missing strategy matters.
Instead, it serves as more of a truism: the economy used to be better,
children used to respect their parents,
and engineering organizations used to have an engineering strategy.
This chapter starts by exploring something I believe quite strongly:
there’s always an engineering strategy, even if there’s nothing written down.
From there, we’ll discuss why strategy, especially written strategy, is such
a valuable opportunity for organizations that take it seriously.