Navigating the Engineering Organization

13 Coming Attractions

DOI: 10.1201/9781003214397-17

13.1 Previews of Coming Attractions

We’ll next briefly discuss what’s to come. Like previews at a movie theater, several “attractions” are coming your way: one concerning the immediate future and the other addressing the longer-term time horizon, as much as such a thing can be realistically done. The point of this is to reinforce the notion that your roadmap, once created, will soon need to change. You’ll notice this initially as small updates arrive (say, an improvement to an existing measurement technology that requires new training) to a major change to an HR conformance policy (say, requiring Darwinian “survival of the fittest” competition between department colleagues. Later, there ...