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The carefulness knob


A play in one act Dramatis personae EM, an engineering manager TL, the tech lead for the team X, an engineering manager from a different team Scene 1: A meeting room in an office. The walls are ado…

TL: As the team does development, we have to make decisions about how much effort to spend on testing, how closely to hew to explicitly documented processes, that sort of thing. Wasn’t that incident that happened a few weeks ago related to a change that was considered a low risk at the time? We make these sort of time tradeoffs in the small, they’re individual decisions, but they add up, and we’re always under schedule pressure to deliver.

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