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by jemmyw 1037 days ago
People building projects don't tend to argue about tech debt and security unless they've had a leader make decisions that compromised their comfort levels. Quorum decision making in those circumstances keeps those things in check.
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> Quorum decision making in those circumstances keeps those things in check.

Depends upon the composition of the quorum. If the quorum is mostly "eh it works, just ship it", jugaad, chabuduo, corner cutting engineers, then I've witnessed adverse results.

Conscientious engineering that delicately balances trade-offs is difficult to teach, and poorly discerned by most casual observers (even other conscientious engineers casually observing) in the short term.

>jugaad, chabuduo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad

I love seeing other culture's words for the universal engineering concepts of "hack", "kludge" and "bodge"