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Tried it. Nope. You can get people to acknowledge it but because it's not a fun project or doesn't involve an upsell you can bill the clients for, it'll go in
by baz00 3y ago
Tried it. Nope. You can get people to acknowledge it but because it's not a fun project or doesn't involve an upsell you can bill the clients for, it'll go in a product backlog for a decade or two.
I don't care any more. I'm just there to tell people what's shit and then laugh when it explodes in their face.
- pastage 3y agoThat is what skunkworks are for. You just deliver on time and you are fine.
- baz00 3y agoWhat is this deliver thing? I haven't done anything productive for years.
- claytonjy 3y agoThe easy part is choosing a better end-state; anyone can do that, and for any of these Rube Goldberg machines at a large-ish company, several people likely have. What makes someone a staff+ is finding a path to iteratively evolving towards that end-state without breaking anything along the way and while having progress to show off at each step.
- pastage 3y agoOh yes but part of that is knowing that you need to get others on board. Things get messy when no one knows the end goals with changes.