Re:Using Technical Debt in Your Favor
by internetman55 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @10:02AM
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A manager I worked with previously was like that--no interest in making sure the project could be maintained or actually worked, only promising things to people who didn't even use our platform (me and a coworker checked our logs before I left the company) and getting "wins" so he could talk about them in meetings.
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Re:Using Technical Debt in Your Favor
by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:23PM
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That's organisational debt, which is a prime cause of technical debt.
It reliably fascinates me that in spite of more than a century of history, management culture lacks both words and concepts for many common and predictable organisational failure modes.
It actually reminds me of regular corporate life in a confused company— and in turn, this: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Re:Using Technical Debt in Your Favor
by dragonwriter on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:32PM
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> It reliably fascinates me that in spite of more than a century of history, management culture lacks both words and concepts for many common and predictable organisational failure modes.
Does it? The manager in GP, for instance, seems to be a textbook example of a thermocline of truth.