is there a job title where you go around telling people who are "a little backed up" "need to prioritize better" "have a few bugs in the backlog" "prefer to do all testing by hand" that their processes are office-building-on-fire broken

@octopus It can't be "manager," 'cause few who get into that state will listen to those. The critique has to come from inside the perception-gap.

@octopus @literorrery Generally, it is within own team. Good companies have a tech leadership path which lets you get purview over more.

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