Re:Feature Flags: Theory vs. Reality
by masklinn on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:23PM
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It assumes management gives a rat's ass about it.
In the original comment:
> Especially if their PM leaned on engineers to make the experiment "quick n dirty" and therefore hard to clean up.
The PM then just needs to say that they don't have the time to cleanup because they have shit to do, and there's folks out there who pretty much live for this, and are usually well seen by management because they're management's executioner: no matter how shit the idea and execution, they'll get it rammed in.
In the original comment:
> Especially if their PM leaned on engineers to make the experiment "quick n dirty" and therefore hard to clean up.
The PM then just needs to say that they don't have the time to cleanup because they have shit to do, and there's folks out there who pretty much live for this, and are usually well seen by management because they're management's executioner: no matter how shit the idea and execution, they'll get it rammed in.