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# From charlest here:
# http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer

Taking platform developers and throwing them against hard goals and deadlines kills your ability to adapt. Management 
and project stakeholders end up making too many decisions about the technology away from the people who know it 
best – the people building it. To show progress and keep management happy, engineers shift their focus to tangible 
deliverables and ignore the pieces management can't understand, like the underlying architecture. You start going 
down the path of building lots of bells and whistles, but nothing solid that you can competitively leverage.

this sounds like an error in communicating the process of innovation and blending it with the reality of making payroll.