It's Really Necessary To Stabilize Project

Project management Technical debt Framework migration Bonus structure Architecture decisions Tech leadership Rewrites Shiny object syndrome Priorities

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It's Really Necessary To Stabilize Project

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The project manager is salivating over their delivery bonus while the senior architect just casually dropped a nuclear bomb about migrating to some shiny new framework. Classic tech industry priorities in action! The PM sees dollar signs while the architect gets to play with their new toys, and guess who's going to be working nights and weekends to make it happen? Not these two—they'll be at the beach while the dev team frantically googles "how to migrate legacy codebase to FancyFramework 4.0 without breaking everything." Ten bucks says the framework will be deprecated before the migration is even complete.

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