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Additionally, a team of one has no redundancy. You know, how Bob is responsible for maintaining the business critical databases, and now the databases are on fi
by tetha 4y ago
Additionally, a team of one has no redundancy. You know, how Bob is responsible for maintaining the business critical databases, and now the databases are on fire and Bob is on a canoe tour through Canada without a phone. Oops.
For business critical things, you generally want 3 guys who can replace each other competently. Three, because one is none if the one guy gets sick, and two is also one if the other is on vacation and thus none.
- toast0 4y ago> Three, because one is none if the one guy gets sick, and two is also one if the other is on vacation and thus none. Proof by induction that it's not worth having anybody work on anything. Three is two if one is on jury duty, and two is none as shown.
- tetha 4y agoYou jest, but we've had weeks during which - out of 6 people - one was on vacation, two were sick, and then two more had to call in child-sick because their respective day cares had to close due to positive covid tests. And suddenly you're last man standing between the outage gremlins and customer systems.