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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by baz00 on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:16PM (#38072438)
Tried it. Nope. You can get people to acknowledge it but because it's not a fun project or doesn't involve an upsell you can bill the clients for, it'll go in a product backlog for a decade or two.

I don't care any more. I'm just there to tell people what's shit and then laugh when it explodes in their face.

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by pastage on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:34PM (#38072681)
That is what skunkworks are for. You just deliver on time and you are fine.
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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by baz00 on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:55PM (#38073080)
What is this deliver thing? I haven't done anything productive for years.
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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by claytonjy on Monday October 30, 2023 @04:12PM (#38075087)
The easy part is choosing a better end-state; anyone can do that, and for any of these Rube Goldberg machines at a large-ish company, several people likely have.

What makes someone a staff+ is finding a path to iteratively evolving towards that end-state without breaking anything along the way and while having progress to show off at each step.

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by pastage on Saturday November 04, 2023 @11:33AM (#38141972)
Oh yes but part of that is knowing that you need to get others on board. Things get messy when no one knows the end goals with changes.
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