Monday, May 30, 2022

Heroes can help fix Hero Worship anti-pattern

I frequently rail against the all-too common anti-pattern of "Hero Worship Culture" in DevOps.  Heroes don't scale.  Hero worship disincentivizes high-quality, reliable software and focuses on heroic efforts to repair bad code.  My litany is long.

Here is an interesting idea articulated in a Basketball analogy that does not always work. The author gives prescriptive methods for the heroes themselves to systematize reactive support, incident management, and DevOps culture.
 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well, there is that inevitable truth, that some problems can be resolved only when you are on the edge.
Heroism is the last resort to fix fragility, so to say.

I'll add one more (semi)argument -- that is natural trait of our mind -- to react better on extrimes. And ignore boring stuff too.