> but often my advice doesn’t gel with those who sought it.
Absolutely, but the author's explanation of why is both incomplete and unnecessary convoluted.
People pursue that which they can reason about, such as bike shedding[1]. Other answers are discarded without consideration. This is called bias. Perhaps the common bias failure that people employ about software are unfounded assertions. Developers make unfounded assertions typically in the quest for least effort without consideration of total cost of ownership[2]. Software managers frequently make the same errors for the purpose of reducing accounting expenses as opposed to personal time.
Senior executives and military leaders solve for this by surrounding themselves with advisors. Advisors occupy a managerial position of domain specific knowledge that eagerly seek to both keep their boss informed and simultaneously disqualify their boss's bad decisions. This works to eliminate bias so that the boss's job is then limited to balancing competing guidance from their advisors against their own managerial experience in consideration of attaining the stated goal.
Absolutely, but the author's explanation of why is both incomplete and unnecessary convoluted.
People pursue that which they can reason about, such as bike shedding[1]. Other answers are discarded without consideration. This is called bias. Perhaps the common bias failure that people employ about software are unfounded assertions. Developers make unfounded assertions typically in the quest for least effort without consideration of total cost of ownership[2]. Software managers frequently make the same errors for the purpose of reducing accounting expenses as opposed to personal time.
Senior executives and military leaders solve for this by surrounding themselves with advisors. Advisors occupy a managerial position of domain specific knowledge that eagerly seek to both keep their boss informed and simultaneously disqualify their boss's bad decisions. This works to eliminate bias so that the boss's job is then limited to balancing competing guidance from their advisors against their own managerial experience in consideration of attaining the stated goal.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/totalcostofownership.as...