Timeline for How to navigate non tech savy management dictating software development platforms, languages and technology
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| Oct 12, 2018 at 22:05 | comment | added | MarkTO | Following on to gnasher729, every manager learns about Sunk Costs in Management 101 and then promptly forgets about it forever. Maybe approach it from a risk perspective. Unproven technology, unfamiliar engine, high risk of bugs. If you can lead them through the implications of using this thing vs keeping the existing engine like a salesperson, and sell them what they already have, you can dwarf that 100k investment vs the cost and schedule impacts of using it. They could lose over 10x that much. Prove that to them and they may change their minds. | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 5:12 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/852026647930785792 | ||
| Apr 11, 2017 at 18:48 | comment | added | Reahreic | Sorry for the delayed replies: • I'm a group lead. • The gap between training and proficiency is one that i don't think is being considered. (I'm open to learning whatever i need to learn so long as the appropriate training and time is supplied) • If the software were free we wouldn't use it as we already have capabilities in two other similar products. | |
| Apr 8, 2017 at 13:45 | comment | added | gnasher729 | There's the "sunk money" fallacy. Just because they blew $100,000, that money is gone. The rational question is: Would you use that software if it was free to you, or would that free software cost you more money in inconveniences? | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 14:42 | answer | added | user8365 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 13:57 | answer | added | HLGEM | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 13:37 | answer | added | Kempeth | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 7:47 | comment | added | Walfrat | There is a gap between learning the language (and the engine) and properly used it, usually training is really good for the 1st, not often for the second... Personnaly unless you have some people that will learn the language and engine on their free time and formed other people, I'll just run away. | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 5:48 | answer | added | Erik | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 22:30 | comment | added | HorusKol | You don't say what your position is - are you a department head, or a line developer? Truth be told, I think you're stuck either way - management has already blown $100,000 on this, and will now be chasing that investment down the hole and they don't seem to have listened to any technology recommendations before. If you and your team go against this, they will likely replace you with people who "know" that engine. | |
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| Apr 6, 2017 at 21:25 | history | asked | Reahreic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |