I’d like to see a study on how incompetent tech leads get and maintain their high paying jobs. The poor leadership traits described are the bare minimum competencies I’d think.
And then, gamedev isn't known for their progressive approach to management (to say the least). A couple of years back, it made the major news in Poland that CD Projekt RED adopted Agile. They actually pumped PR efforts in that.
In 2023.
Give them two more decades, and they might as well adopt modern management approaches or even Lean Startup.
I would speculate that a relatively high degree of incompetence of leadership in gamedev is a combination of Peter's Principle and the fact that it's an industry romanticized by many. Thus, they can afford not to fix many issues that would be fatal for an average boring corporation. There will always be new blood coming.
I’d like to see a study on how incompetent tech leads get and maintain their high paying jobs. The poor leadership traits described are the bare minimum competencies I’d think.
There's Peter's Principle that says that everyone will be promoted till they eventually become incompetent at their job: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
And then, gamedev isn't known for their progressive approach to management (to say the least). A couple of years back, it made the major news in Poland that CD Projekt RED adopted Agile. They actually pumped PR efforts in that.
In 2023.
Give them two more decades, and they might as well adopt modern management approaches or even Lean Startup.
I would speculate that a relatively high degree of incompetence of leadership in gamedev is a combination of Peter's Principle and the fact that it's an industry romanticized by many. Thus, they can afford not to fix many issues that would be fatal for an average boring corporation. There will always be new blood coming.