How Much Control Do Developers Really Have?
Big companies love boxes. Policies, platforms, roadmaps. Fine. The trick is noticing the room inside the box. This is a map of what developers and teams can actually control in that room, what can be bent without a permission slip, and what can only be influenced over time. It’s not theory. It’s the small, repeatable moves that make your day less miserable and your system less fragile. The Three Buckets of Control I think about control in three rough categories. ...