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by richk449 2314 days ago
> What is the alternative? Assuming here there is such a thing as a correct engineering strategy, who should define it?

In companies where engineering strategy is done well, the person defining the strategy (a director or VP usually) knows the technology as well as or better than any of the people working for him - that is why he or she is in that position. And because of that, he or she probably has buy-in from rest of the people in the engineering organization.