Re:The Framing of the Developer
by someguydave on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @09:22AM
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Preventing the destruction of the company in the case of low probability risks is its own impact.
Re:The Framing of the Developer
by 29athrowaway on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:02AM
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Let's say the probability of someone leaving their job in a given day is 1/100.
If you have 100 employees, from which each one of them is working on some critical piece of software that nobody fully understand, eventually you get a death spiral of orphaned projects.
If critical business functions depend on a piece of software maintained by one person, the organization has a problem.
If you decide to become dependent on a piece of software, that software better be well documented, tested, audited and maintained by a group of people with certain level of redundancy in case one of them is not available or leaves the organization.