- golf buddy convinces CEO of well-run software shop: your company is way too inefficient "your per-employee ratios are off the charts low!"
- golf buddy gets hired as Chief Strategy Officer, hires a bunch of high paid underlings
- they decide the freeze wages, reduces bonuses, reduces benefits for software engineers. Lots of savings to show! (unless you also count inflated salaries of new management)
- Software engineers demoralized, best ones move on to better jobs, adverse selection, more demoralization
- Golf buddy hires more project managers -- because obviously the answer to underpaid SWEs is to hire more managers. Beatings will continue until morale improves.
- Now the company really does have bad metrics. Decisions are made to offshore half the staff -- save 30%, but increase work for onshore staff. Offshore staff is great, but at a disadvantage due to distance and not having context/proximity to business.
- Golf buddy hires product managers to better define specs, more project managers to produce more reports.
- Gold buddy, his friends, ride off with their big paychecks to spoil the next company
Innovative CEO, a sales centric MBA who's never written a line of code, now overseeing acquired software company, imposes the golf buddy's investor pleasing "blended shore" model, the outsourcing of core knowledge work to noobs coupled with shipping the actual skilled labor to lowest cost locales, against the advice of everyone who's ever successfully shipped software, who are all now branded "seditious", and managed out of the company they built up from zero.
Your crude caricature relies on the existing CEO, and the board, to be incompetent and easily swayed by bogus numbers. If they were indeed incompetent, its not exactly a shock if the company implodes then is it?
- golf buddy convinces CEO of well-run software shop: your company is way too inefficient "your per-employee ratios are off the charts low!"
- golf buddy gets hired as Chief Strategy Officer, hires a bunch of high paid underlings
- they decide the freeze wages, reduces bonuses, reduces benefits for software engineers. Lots of savings to show! (unless you also count inflated salaries of new management)
- Software engineers demoralized, best ones move on to better jobs, adverse selection, more demoralization
- Golf buddy hires more project managers -- because obviously the answer to underpaid SWEs is to hire more managers. Beatings will continue until morale improves.
- Now the company really does have bad metrics. Decisions are made to offshore half the staff -- save 30%, but increase work for onshore staff. Offshore staff is great, but at a disadvantage due to distance and not having context/proximity to business.
- Golf buddy hires product managers to better define specs, more project managers to produce more reports.
- Gold buddy, his friends, ride off with their big paychecks to spoil the next company