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I love that.
I think many people are loathe to "turn the argument around", and pretend they're going the other way.
For example, imagine some legacy app used by 10 people out of 10,000 is incompatible with something like a Microsoft Office upgrade.
In many organisations, the argument goes like this: "We can't upgrade to Office 2023 because StupidApp will break!"
Turning that around: "If Office 2023 was already rolled out, would you roll that back to Office 2021 just for StupidApp?"
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I love that.
I think many people are loathe to "turn the argument around", and pretend they're going the other way.
For example, imagine some legacy app used by 10 people out of 10,000 is incompatible with something like a Microsoft Office upgrade.
In many organisations, the argument goes like this: "We can't upgrade to Office 2023 because StupidApp will break!"
Turning that around: "If Office 2023 was already rolled out, would you roll that back to Office 2021 just for StupidApp?"