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The commenter above said they had to "solve live production problems", how exactly would "pre-defined tasks" help them?

• pmlnr 7y ago
  I slipped over the "live" word, but I still stand by what I said. I most probably work in a similar environment, with tonnes of live production issues, and I believe it's a result of not being allowed to proactively plan for situations - most of the issues are a result of cost savings, systems driven to their absolute maximum capacity, etc. Live production issues are a byproduct of moving too fast, breaking too many things.
  • wastedhours 7y ago
    I'd style my way out of that argument by saying out reliance on tools like Slack rather than other pre-planned work builds a reliance on that one tool for all tasks being done "in the moment", which then means it's relied on as the medium in live production issues. If there was a lower reliance on IM for all tasks, other solutions for crisis management would be utilised (potentially).
  • dasil003 7y ago
    What an incredibly arrogant generalization to make. You know there are also production issues created by moving too slow and failing to address pending scalability issues, right?
    • pmlnr 7y ago
      heh. > failing to address pending scalability issues How is that not related to not getting enough funding and resources? And yes, having scalability issues means moving too fast - the _business_ moving too fast.
      • kaikai 7y ago
        This is starting to sound like the business version of starting physics problems with “imagine a frictionless surface...”