A TinyCTO.tv technical parable about a team that labels every request a quick win, removes every safety check, and then discovers that the fastest path to production was also the shortest path to an incident.
The PM: The request is tiny. We only need it before lunch. Junior Developer: Which lunch? The PM: The one that started forty minutes ago. Junior Developer: So discovery is already late. Glitch: I removed discovery from the critical path. The PM: That sounds efficient. Junior Developer: Validation found three edge cases. The PM: Can validation find them after launch? Glitch: Production has excellent observability. Tiny CTO: Observability is not a substitute for judgment. The PM: We also need a rollback plan. Junior Developer: I thought 'ship it' was the rollback plan. Glitch: The deployment completed in four minutes. Tiny CTO: And the incident began in three. The PM: Can we still call it a quick win? Tiny CTO: Of course. The incident arrived early.
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Urgency inflation creates a culture where taking time to validate is seen as blocking progress.