Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance

Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by nathanvanfleet on Sunday July 23, 2017 @11:05PM (#14835620)

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?

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by nightski on Sunday July 23, 2017 @11:55PM (#14835796)

The fact that you need a sexy word is indicative of the problem.

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by saltyworker on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:31AM (#14838265)

The fact that you need a sexy word is indicative of _human nature_

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by adrianN on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:43AM (#14839398)

Words don't become sexy by themselves, they become sexy because they're labels for sexy things.

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by s_kilk on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:51AM (#14838876)

If it were something utterly intrinsic to Human Nature, there would be no opposition to it.

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by firethief on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:23AM (#14839182)

By that definition there is no true human nature.

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by s_kilk on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:31AM (#14839280)

Bingo

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by tbrownaw on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:00PM (#14842646)

Reproduction is intrinsic to all life -- yes, including us humans -- and yet there are people who oppose it.

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by Rovanion on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:59AM (#14838507)

I'm not sure that can be said with certainty, perhaps it is cultural.

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by pmlnr on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:49AM (#14838865)

Oh, 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/

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by csours on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:21AM (#14836064)

Continuous Improvement is the lean manufacturing term for it.

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by marcosdumay on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:11PM (#14840383)

Continuous 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.

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by drawkbox on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:37AM (#14836112)

"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.

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by sengork on Sunday July 23, 2017 @11:11PM (#14835637)

Operational innovation is maybe the term you are looking for.

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by pontifk8r on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:07AM (#14836183)

Sustainability Engineering?

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by Waterluvian on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:39AM (#14836118)

Let's all go remaster our local park!

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by deathtrader666 on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:10AM (#14836016)

"Reliability & Recovery Engineering"

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by billysielu on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:13AM (#14837180)

My choice is 'survival'. Less easy for business-types to dismiss.

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by throwawaycanada on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:06AM (#14835824)

Call it long term support logistics and operations.

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by noway421 on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:57AM (#14836867)

Or maybe just "Support"

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Re:Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance by kutkloon7 on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:25AM (#14839205)

But refinement doesn't seem accurate, as it implies that there are changes being made, while this is not necessarily the case.

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