Re:Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?
by cogman10 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:23PM
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Money, Money is the way you talk that makes business listen.
You say "If we don't solve this by X date, we are looking at losing the ability to take in revenue and possible law suits for failure to perform. It will take Y amount of time to accomplish this"
If you don't couch things in terms of time, money, resources, client impact. They will not care. You can say "Hey, it is super bad that we are running Tomcat 7.0.0 there are a lot of security vulnerabilities" and what they will hear is "blah, blah, blah, we can delay this".
You say "If we don't solve this by X date, we are looking at losing the ability to take in revenue and possible law suits for failure to perform. It will take Y amount of time to accomplish this"
If you don't couch things in terms of time, money, resources, client impact. They will not care. You can say "Hey, it is super bad that we are running Tomcat 7.0.0 there are a lot of security vulnerabilities" and what they will hear is "blah, blah, blah, we can delay this".