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What is this role GCL really about?

A glorified 'yes-man' , minimal technical skills, zero initiative, and a submissive mindset that prioritizes compliance over competence. No vision, no real expertise, just blind agreement with whatever nonsense comes from above.

The lower your IQ, the better you’ll perform in this job. Meanwhile, architects are the ones actually keeping the tech from collapsing, compensating for the incompetence these roles bring. Yet somehow, we're the ones under scrutiny?

Cut them all. The org wouldn’t even notice they’re gone

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Forgot the biggest group of non-essential roles: the architects in FAE. Return the responsibility of architectural back to the squad. Leave only minimal of architects at FAE:

  • Cross-domain architects who look across functional, org and business boundaries.
  • Vertical or niche architects whose expertise are not widely and constantly needed such as security, accessibility, UX....

The rest of the architects in FAE? Cut!

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Post ID: @ac+1k29ptv1g

It's the locality of leadership, which should reside as close as where the action happens. Not the group chapter leads, not the architects in the remote FAE, rather it's the chapter lead, the squad lead, or the combination of the two (the team lead). The single leader is responsible and hold accountable for the squad's health and impacts. Any other roles are results of empire building: GCL, GSL, Scrum, Strategy, Governance...

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