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Re:Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity by strix_varius on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:27PM (#47250829)
To add to this, sometimes leadership will assume (or even imply) that there's some laziness involved in not wanting to jump immediately on-board with the complex proposal.

I often end up saying, "I can build this, and I will build this if product insists on it, but first let me suggest an alternative ordering of deliverables that starts with a simple implementation and moves towards this one." In almost every case, that simple implementation is still what's in production years later.

Re:Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity by taeric on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:12PM (#47252347)
Lead time for "how long until we can start using it" is one that is hard for a lot of folks to really take into consideration. There are terms for this, "earned value" and such. I have rarely seen them used in such a way that the planning actually worked out, long term.