Tag: consulting
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The four weeks I spent not doing my job
Another semi-management story. On an AWS ProServe engagement, a big four partner had already owned the project for six months, and they wanted us nowhere near the real work. My first instinct was to push for a seat at the decision-making table, and that instinct was the problem. Here is what four weeks of deliberately not doing my job cost, the technical debt I watched pile up, and why the trust-building turned out to be the work itself.