How Do You Get It?
Convincing management will vary in difficulty depending on the formality of the mandate and the flexibility of your workplace. Regardless of these factors, you will not be able to sway them at all unless you are capable of showing them that they need to, that you’re not a crazy lone wolf, and that you have a reason for involving them.
Solve Their Problems
As stated earlier in Chapter 10, The Boss, you need to solve your boss’s problems, not your own. You need to show that the technical problem that you have translates into a business problem they have.
Translation is not terribly hard to do, once you train yourself to do it. Wasted developer time is wasted money. Performance drains are wasted hardware resources. Insecure ...
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