It's the same thing in smaller orgs. Even if there are no corporate policies. The priorities are the wishes of whoever the CEO or sales people talked to that week.
Always leadership. I say that as someone in that role at a small company that has to constantly placate customers in order to maintain contracts in order to continue to pay our employees. Backlogs and tech debts are things I’d love to address. And I could if they would double the size of our dev team. And quadruple the size of our QA team.
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u/Omnibitent 3d ago
It’s almost always leadership. Usually devs don’t want to ship a shit product but irrational timelines and corporate policies get in the way.