[toyg]

> next year will be entirely new and innovative and in the bin in 12 months.

Yeah but my problem is that they are the ones with grand visions that may or may not ever come to fruition, and I am the one left with half-baked features that the business clearly needs to fix right now but are seen as unfashionable to work on.

Recently I was at a point where I've suggested to onboard a junior resource to mop the metaphorical floor. I'm starting to think that, next time, I should ask to have different degrees of seniority in the team to make it more balanced.

[hobs]

Honestly it sounds like you have a bit of a management problem if your engineers are building random stuff you don't need. I spend a decent amount of my time behind the scenes with the PM folks making sure the things we are building are the things we want to build, and then convincing people (often in a face saving manner) that what the business wants is what we all want (since they pay us.)

This generally works because I target the smaller companies and so actually making money is at issue, in a large enough org you can go half a decade before anything shakes up dumb stuff.