Re:We need someone who has done “it” before
by enraged_camel on Thursday April 28, 2022 @11:31AM
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I used to work in consulting where I had several hundred projects under my belt, and I think your objection is a bit shortsighted. It is possible to learn a lot by implementing something you have implemented before, but in a different context. Even if the problem turns out to be 80% the same, the remaining 20% can be a valuable learning experience. And if the pay is handsome, why turn it down?
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Re:We need someone who has done “it” before
by saalweachter on Thursday April 28, 2022 @02:18PM
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I do feel like "do the thing you did before, but fix the glaring mistakes you made before in hindsight" has some appeal.
Re:We need someone who has done “it” before
by jameshart on Thursday April 28, 2022 @07:25PM
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Isn’t that one of the problems the article is getting at though?
Someone who has done “it” in another environment will have scar tissue formed from issues they ran into doing “it” there.
When you hire them to do “it” here, they will avoid things that didn’t work there and try to do things that did - but here is not there and maybe the situation aligns differently and what didn’t work there would work here.
Like, maybe they ran into an issue with doing “it” using approach A because it required a more skilled operations team than they had there. But maybe here you have a better ops team and approach A would be much easier.