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Stahnkes-laws-of-implementation
1. The cost of development rounds to zero when considering operating something in perpetuity.
2. The cost to introduce technology is zero when compared to the effort required to retire it.
3. If you stand still long enough, you're ahead.
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arafatm commented Feb 23, 2023

just tightly couple each project to a single person then if you stackrank the people, you have a project stack ranking as a side effect

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stahnma commented Apr 22, 2023

The junior engineer demands a rewrite. The senior engineer makes existing software work.

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