This post began as a WordCamp US talk proposal. The core ideas are worth sharing, so I adapted it from a talk to an article. Enjoy! Technical experts in a company know things, understand things thoroughly, in a way that someone, somewhere higher on the org chart, doesn’t. CEOs that have software engineering skills are rare. The Vice President of Engineering isn’t in the code every day, and no longer knows the minute details of the implementation. Even the principal engineer overseeing a junior’s...