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Highest Paid Person's Opinion. Failing orgs usually have a HiPPO-wins culture. Often spotted in pre-digital\digital-denying companies with towering hierarchies. Bad decisions are made by managers who have never written a line of code in their lives and little knowledge versus the software engineers beneath them.
Software engineer: Why have we just spent a gazillion dollars on Oracle licences?
Software engineer2: Oh, a passing salesman pitched to our HiPPO head of department, and now he wants the DBAs to write our business logic in Stored Procedures
Software engineer2: Oh, a passing salesman pitched to our HiPPO head of department, and now he wants the DBAs to write our business logic in Stored Procedures
by bucolicdictionary March 23, 2021
by bucolicdictionary July 24, 2021