Re:Being swamped is normal and not impressive
by roflyear on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:41PM
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True! But not every highly-productive person is this. If you keep complexity low, you can have a "single point" without it being high risk.
Recently I was really proud of being able to take a half of a day to document all my systems to have a reasonable assurance that the documentation would contain all the info needed for someone else to step in if they need to and get something done.
And, it is a lot of systems! But we kept the complexity WAY down. And while the engineering is not perfect (is it ever?) I feel confident that someone can step in and work on these systems if I'm not here.
Re:Being swamped is normal and not impressive
by roflyear on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:23AM
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Probably true. I think my point is more if you are good at your job, you won't become a single point of failure. It is part of being good at your job to avoid that.
Recently I was really proud of being able to take a half of a day to document all my systems to have a reasonable assurance that the documentation would contain all the info needed for someone else to step in if they need to and get something done.
And, it is a lot of systems! But we kept the complexity WAY down. And while the engineering is not perfect (is it ever?) I feel confident that someone can step in and work on these systems if I'm not here.