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A Chief Engineer still has a budget, a CEO and a board to answer to. The budget is especially important - if a promise is made to deliver X and Y within six months but you can't hire enough developers to get it done then even the most talented Engineer in the world is going to fail.

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So move the dates. These things aren't set in stone and part of her job is to convince the board and everyone else what is realistic and what isn't, convince them that X requires Y budget and Z time and what the risks are and that the investment is worth it and so on.

It's possible that she resigned after she tried that and they blew her off.

True, and if that's why she left that's fine with me.

You'll be pleased to hear that she really values you being fine with it, as do we all.

spez the CEO has made public time commitments for certain updates.

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