Donald Ball on Nostr: I led a team which rotated onto helping rescue a failing project once. Leadership ...
I led a team which rotated onto helping rescue a failing project once. Leadership offered us 3-4 weeks to "fix the tech debt", and both they and our manager were perplexed when I flatly refused.
Setting aside the obvious trap, my point to them was — making changes just to make changes is silly and dangerous. Give us one (1) feature at a time with a generous timeline and we will fix the things that make sense to facilitate that change.
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