Everyone is a Builder

The dynamics at organizations that build their own software are changing. As someone coaching traditionally non-technical professionals to get more value out of AI in their work, I have a front-row seat. The conversations are all quite similar. Our processes are such a headache. The tools we have just don’t work for the job. I’ve written a proposal for what a better version would look like, but I can’t get the resources to execute on it. I can’t get funding. I can’t get my work on the roadmap. I can’t get procurement to approve the purchase of what I need. In the past, these non-technical contributors received a rough deal. They were beholden to technical teams and capital allocators to solve their problems. In most cases, the tradeoff they were given was deal with the subpar situation, figure out a way to make it work find another role However, there has been one part of software-building organizations where this has historically been less common. Where ICs hold much more influence…