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I mean, I think the best way to start with this is to use a word other than "maintenance." That's not really the most sexy word if you really want people to get
by nathanvanfleet 9y ago
I mean, I think the best way to start with this is to use a word other than "maintenance." That's not really the most sexy word if you really want people to get behind it. Furthermore it just suggests that the work is keeping something as good as it was from the beginning. Filling in holes, giving it a coat of paint every now and then.
What it really should be called is "refinement." The innovation ends up being incredibly crude but it gets the job done. How can we build on that, make it better and less coarse than it was? How can we make it more efficient?
- sengork 9y agoOperational innovation is maybe the term you are looking for.
- nightski 9y agoThe fact that you need a sexy word is indicative of the problem.
- saltyworker 9y agoThe fact that you need a sexy word is indicative of _human nature_
- throwawaycanada 9y agoCall it long term support logistics and operations.
- noway421 9y agoOr maybe just "Support"
- deathtrader666 9y ago"Reliability & Recovery Engineering"
- csours 9y agoContinuous Improvement is the lean manufacturing term for it.
- marcosdumay 9y agoContinuous improvement is more like the kind of maintenance you do to software than the one you do to infrastructure. I don't think the name would matter in any way. It's more a problem of what voters value, or what politicians think that voters value.
- drawkbox 9y ago"Quality of life" improvements would be better. People can motivate themselves if it improves their quality of life. We do daily maintenance, life itself is mostly maintenance, but you can make it worthwhile, and sometimes fun, by focusing that on improving your quality of life and time.
- Waterluvian 9y agoLet's all go remaster our local park!
- pontifk8r 9y agoSustainability Engineering?
- billysielu 9y agoMy choice is 'survival'. Less easy for business-types to dismiss.
- pmlnr 9y agoOh, come on. Remarketing words is buzz, and we really shouldn't encourage it. This is why we're having that ridiculous title-bubble as well, Senior Site Reliability Engineer. Sure, whatever. /sysadmin, who's been doing sysadmin, devops, backend dev, and sre stuff and sometimes do pretty css flies away/
- kutkloon7 9y agoBut refinement doesn't seem accurate, as it implies that there are changes being made, while this is not necessarily the case.