The CTO's Timeline Tightrope
The Hidden Cost of Forcing Software into Quarterly Boxes or EOS Rocks
I'm sitting in our quarterly leadership meeting, watching our CEO draw boxes on the whiteboard. Each box represents a "rock" in our EOS system—those critical priorities we've committed to completing this quarter. The product team has already filled most of them with ambitious feature requests, each with a neat deadline that perfectly aligns with our qua…
