Deciding when it is possible to move on from a thing vs endlessly maintaining it — and generally communicating around and planning for ongoing maintenance. It seems like if you over-index on this factor, nothing gets done, but if you ignore it — your problems are much worse.
Yes this! If you decide against too many things because of the maintenance load, you lose functionality, but you'll lose it in the other direction if you just say yes to all the new dependencies, projects, etc.
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Deciding when it is possible to move on from a thing vs endlessly maintaining it — and generally communicating around and planning for ongoing maintenance. It seems like if you over-index on this factor, nothing gets done, but if you ignore it — your problems are much worse.
Yes this! If you decide against too many things because of the maintenance load, you lose functionality, but you'll lose it in the other direction if you just say yes to all the new dependencies, projects, etc.