You all know about POETS day, don’t you? It’s a great acronym:<\/p>\n
P-ss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s a pretty good summation of a lot of the IT industry \u2013 we’re reluctant to kick off major changes on a Friday because … well, the weekend follows, and if something goes wrong, it could be disruptive.<\/p>\n
But a day or so ago, Matt Stace (@matstace<\/a>) tweeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n
If it’s not good enough to deploy on a Friday, what makes it good enough to deploy any other day of the week?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Some might think this is a little trite, but there’s actually good wisdom in Mat’s comment \u2013 if we lack the confidence that something we’re working on can be deployed safely on Friday, why should we be any more confident that it can be deployed safely at another time? In fact, when you stop and think about it, in the light of cold logic, there’s only two explanations:<\/p>\n
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- You aren’t sufficiently certain that what you’re going to deploy is ready, or<\/li>\n
- You’re superstitious.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Now, I’m as willing as the next person to claim that Murphy’s Law takes a perverse delight in visiting computer rooms, but realistically, that’s just a tendency to catastrophise* things when they come up unexpectedly.<\/p>\n
So, if you’re sitting back and saying that you or the company should hold off doing something on a Friday because, well, it’s Friday, it’s time to sit back and ask yourself \u2013 is it because you’re being superstitious, or is it because it’s just simply not ready to be done, regardless of what day it is?<\/p>\n
I know I will be.<\/p>\n