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Great if you can wait 9 months for the pipeline to start producing babies, but the analogy is if you want the first one in a month.
by jboy55 2y ago
Great if you can wait 9 months for the pipeline to start producing babies, but the analogy is if you want the first one in a month.
- HelloNurse 2y agoAnd it isn't just the first "baby". What if you decide to pivot your animal production pipeline from horses to cows? In software development, unfinished work set aside to start from scratch is worthless and it doesn't even allow you to recover some capital by selling replaced animals.
- OJFord 2y agoI said 'an established' pipeline. I don't believe the analogy is ever used in the 'you want the first one in a month' way, because there's myriad other ways to say it's idiotic to just go out hiring if you need something done stat. (Primarily: short-term, hires will reduce productivity, because established colleagues see an increase in the amount of support & knowledge-sharing they need to do, reducing their output by more than the new hire can yet offer.)