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by 4hg4ufxhy 602 days ago
You are just describing what would happen if knob is turned up.

The whole point is whether or not to turn it up, not what the process is once its turned up. Not everyone can afford to waste time planning so much.

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If you can't enumerate risks with the work you're about to do either you don't have any, or you haven't thought enough about it and you're yolo'ing.

If you have a list of risks and you don't know how to mitigate them, you're just yolo'ing.

"We don't have time to plan" is the biggest source of nonsense in this industry. The process I just described takes about 15 minutes to go through for a month's worth of work. Nobody is so busy they can't spare 15 minutes to think about things that might cause major problems that soak up far, far, far more time.