I’m a big fan of these kinds of improvements. They can be a bit dangerous politically though. 5 minutes might be something the manager can get traction to imple

I’m a big fan of these kinds of improvements. They can be a bit dangerous politically though. 5 minutes might be something the manager can get traction to implement a fix to get it below 1 minute build times. At 1 minute the manager may never be able to make a political argument to improve. This may also be why the manager chastised the person fixing this. Such a drastic improvement can completely undermine any efforts to make even bigger fixes, as well as make the manager look foolish that they couldn’t make these improvements already. I tend to believe the perfect is the enemy of good, but I’ve certainly worked in some orgs where I might take an improvement like this to the main champion of the problem first and ask if it’s a useful solution. I might even be willing to shelf the solution if I can be convinced it’s not in the long term best interest of the org. If I’m not, though, I’d likely become a champion of this short term pain relief knowing that things may not ever have much chance to get much better.