Is engineering strategy useful?

While I frequently hear engineers bemoan a missing strategy,they rarely complete the thought by articulating why the missing strategy matters.Instead, it serves as more of a truism: the economy used to be better,children used to respect their parents,and engineering organizations used to have an engineering strategy.

This chapter starts by exploring something I believe quite strongly:there’s always an engineering strategy, even if there’s nothing written down.From there, we’ll discuss why ...