Gen Z is about to reshape your software team. They won’t bow down to your legacy stack. They have no patience for your so-called "best practices." And they certainly don’t want to waste three months on Jira tickets for a feature that nobody uses. Instead, they came of age in a world of real-time creation. One laptop. A Discord server. A Notion board. They are shipping projects in a weekend that your 100-person team can’t seem to accomplish in a quarter. Bureaucracy? They are allergic to it. Speed? They expect nothing less. Your precious product roadmap? They’ll burn it to the ground if it’s a graveyard of “planned” ideas. You can cling to your outdated architecture. Or you can hand the next generation the keys and watch them build solutions ten times faster. Think of the wildest thing you’ve seen a young developer accomplish while your big team was still "planning." They’re innovating when you’re deliberating. What’s the most impressive project you’ve seen them ship?
How Gen Z is disrupting the software industry with speed and innovation.
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