Sorry, but what I'd take from that article is "Product management: It's No Country for Young Men." Perhaps the writer is in fact bemoaning "Caught in that sensual music all neglect / Monuments of unageing intellect" but it's just not a winning treatment.<p>The entire article seems to be about the assorted pitfalls that the inexperienced won't know to watch out for, and as the article references, costs to fix problems increase exponentially the further along you get in the development / distribution / deployed product lifecycle.<p>Product development and management for the physical world (including electronics) is not a place for the "bright shiny" - it's a place for planning, covering everything, knowing where your new item fits within the company, product line and the world (customers, competition). In other words in a lot of ways it's <i>exactly</i> the place for "old men."