Managing technical risk

By leaddev - 2021-02-16

Description

Understanding the motivations behind an engineer’s desire to affect your tech stack

Summary

  • Posted: Manage risk, channel energy By understanding the various motivations that are behind an engineer’s desire to affect your tech stack, you will be better equipped to come up with an answer that makes sense for your organization.
  • One approach to managing risk is through the use of innovation tokens – as is described in Dan McKinley’s frequently referenced post, Choose Boring Technology.
  • There will always be the next new thing and engineers will want to use it.

 

Topics

  1. Management (0.3)
  2. Backend (0.13)
  3. Machine_Learning (0.12)

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