Steve PurcellDec 29, 2023

The root of so many problems in software: reflexively upscaling capacity instead of addressing efficiency. Once you see it, it's everywhere.

- Process running out of memory? Don't just give it more, find out why first, and reduce how much it allocates.

- Team delivering too slowly? Don't just expand the team, find out what's slowing them down.

- Too much work to track? Don't just buy Jira and curate a huge backlog, identify the essentials instead, and keep a simple list

Show threadPuercoPopDec 29, 2023
@sanityinc More broadly, the issue is addressing the symptom instead of cause. Not finding the root cause hampers our ability to take informed decisions at all levels. From debugging (local) to the design of our solutions (org-wide)
Show threadSteve Purcell
@PuercoPop Yeah, also our tendency to prioritise action/addition over reflection/subtraction.
Dec 29, 2023 at 4:13pmWeb