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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The detritus from narratives based on bad-fit tech popularity contests is everywhere in our consulting work.
Teams can easily paint themselves into a corner with stacks they do not fully understand or own. Shallow understanding of stacks is common, and every increment of underappreciated complexity is a stochastic unhappy surprise.
Avoiding bad times for a team means being skeptical about stacks, running bakeoffs, and ruthlessly matching user needs to tech choices:
https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/