The Mythical Man-Month
Today I've been just trying to keep things going because that's what I've been asked to do. Interestingly enough, the new management team that's out on the West Coast for a trip pressing the flesh with users this week is now convinced that everything we have been doing - and when I say "we" - they really mean me, is totally wrong.
They now believe that shared Storm as a service is the magic bullet and will make everything work perfectly. They believe my work has been lazy, and cryptic - at best, and incompetent at worst, and they now want to implement a plan to Clean Things Up.
Never mind that I have a plan to find out the issues plaguing us, and if they just started on that plan, I feel sure we'd see the solution... but that's me again - the lazy, shiftless, good-for-nothing that got us into this mess in the first place.
To do this, let's find out where every machine is in the data center, and then map all the switches and routers - not that we can change anything, but it's possible that this will explain the problem. Let's re-tune the topology because a manager has the feeling that it's wrong - never mind that he is that - a manager.
Let's do all these things that stem from the minds of the managers, and let's all do them Right Now! Drop everything... add five people... this has to be done now.
If I weren't in it, I'd laugh. It's a WTF of epic stature. Insanity.