Balance Short-Term Gains with Long-Term Sustainability

This standard mandates balancing short-term gains with long-term sustainability to invest in scalable, maintainable, and future-proof solutions.

1. Balance Short-Term Gains with Long-Term Sustainability:

Invest in scalable, maintainable, and future-proof solutions. This approach ensures that systems are durable and efficient over time.

• 1.1 Maintainability Prioritization:
  • 1.1.1 Speed vs. Maintainability:
    • Avoid prioritising short-term speed over long-term maintainability.
    • Automate the tracking of maintainability considerations.
  • 1.1.2 Prioritization Management:
    • Automate the tracking of speed vs. maintainability decisions.
    • Implement prioritization tutorials.
• 1.2 Refactoring and Automation Investment:
  • 1.2.1 Long-Term Debt Prevention:
    • Invest in refactoring, automation, and architectural improvements that prevent long-term debt.
    • Automate the tracking of refactoring investments.
  • 1.2.2 Investment Management:
    • Automate the tracking of automation investments.
    • Implement investment feedback collection.
• 1.3 Technical Sustainability Allocation:
  • 1.2.3 Operational Burden Reduction:
    • Ensure teams allocate time for technical sustainability and reducing operational burden.
    • Automate the tracking of sustainability time allocations.
  • 1.1.3 Allocation Management:
    • Automate the tracking of operational burden reductions.
    • Implement allocation tutorials.

By balancing short-term gains with long-term sustainability, organisations can ensure stable and efficient systems.

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