Why Business Leaders Must Stay Close to Engineering Teams

𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮? I've written nothing more than a few lines of HTML code but always made it a point to stay close with these teams over my career.

Here's a reminder + real-world example from this week at Capto why business leaders staying close with their development team pays off.

Also, for you developers of all career stages, this is how you can stand out in supporting your company's success. You see "the Matrix", combining this with knowing client stories that matter and the product just as well as go-to-market leaders means that you are in a position to provide insights before anyone else.

Something I learned from my weekly meetup with Lyubomir Dimitrov:

✅We're about to go into production with a new client process (hooray!)
✅Because we're testing, the client is still completing the task manually alongside our #AIagent.
✅One day, the report created manually by a human and the one by our AI agent came out with different calculations.
✅There was an error in the human created version (it happens), our AI agent worked and calculated the reporting properly.
✅The difference? The human error was 30% off and could have impacted the department in a variety of ways.

Moral of the story? Even in the testing phase our solutions are proving their worth. The client is now even more anxious for us to move to production!

P.S. officially changing the name of our Monday standups to "Lessons with Lyubomir" - I learn something new every time we talk.

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Originally posted on LinkedIn:

https://lnkd.in/p/d7Wd8kq4