Executive Engineering: Practical Engineering Theory for Software Leaders

The top-down vision makes it hard to make big changes in direction in the middle of a launch cycle. Even if the idea is great, it’s hard to find developers with spare time to build it. On the other hand, you’re generally working on features that everyone agrees are important. This means that you can spend your energy trying to build something great

If you want to deliver great products, you want to use best practices for engineering and try not to override the engineers' concerns.