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Re: Make Boring Plans

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Post by mprovost » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 12:13 PM UTC

This is coming from the perspective of someone working in platform engineering. The further down the stack you are, the more conservative (aka boring) you have to be, because the blast radius increases. Quoting another great post [0] on this: "The risk profile for infrastructure is different than the applications that run on top of that infrastructure."

[0] http://cloudscaling.com/blog/devops/continuous-delusion-at-t...

Re: Make Boring Plans

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Post by jldugger » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

whoisburbansky wrote: post #17

jldugger wrote: post #8

What developers think when they hear 'aggressive timeline': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ What managers think: https://youtu.be/-TKjwblp1XI?t=1373 Point being, nobody gets a documentary about themselves made for delivering against a boring deadline.

Kind of amusing to find out that Myers declared personal bankruptcy, losing his stake in C.C. Myers and going on to found Myers and Sons instead. C.C. Myers (the old company) then went on to become employee-owned and later declare bankruptcy itself in 2016. Myers and Sons seems to still be going strong.

Wikipedia at least suggests that the bankruptcy was unrelated. I'm not gonna spend the time to find out tho.

Re: Make Boring Plans

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Post by wgottschalk » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 9:47 PM UTC

What I find interesting is that the bullet points at the end are qualities that really good Product/Project Managers have. When engineers have these skills they become a real force multiplier for their company