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0 pointsMarkMarine5mo ago0 comments

They helped my ideas be “lying around” and picked from when the crisis happened.

In the source, the author says that when there is a crisis (an outage or similar) management will come to you and ask for help solving the problem and you should already have a solution ready to go. What I’ve found is that you should pre-seed your solutions with 1 pagers. Identify things that need to be improved, changes to solve tomorrow’s problems and just take the extra step of writing a 1 pager about it and circulate it. Then when the problem happens that your solution fixes, your fix is already there ready to be fully fleshed out.

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anon848736285mo ago

Absolutely! I thought this was inherent in the Staff Engineer position in the first place, so was sort of surprised it needed to be stated in the article.

MarkMarineOP5mo ago

I didn’t get a manual, just sharing what works for me so the next (new) staff and principals have one more data point.

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0 pointsMarkMarine5mo ago0 comments

They helped my ideas be “lying around” and picked from when the crisis happened.

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anon848736285mo ago

Absolutely! I thought this was inherent in the Staff Engineer position in the first place, so was sort of surprised it needed to be stated in the article.

MarkMarineOP5mo ago

I didn’t get a manual, just sharing what works for me so the next (new) staff and principals have one more data point.

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