by bucolicdictionary July 24, 2021
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