Infrastructure Is Not a One Time Investment

Infrastructure Is Not a One Time Investment

In a recent blog post, Seth Goin discussed the need for ongoing investment to maintain infrastructure. Whether a road or building or even your own skills, it takes regular care to avoid system failures or obsolesce.

An Act of Maturity

Seth opens his piece with:

If you want to see wisdom and maturity in action, look for someone (or a community) investing in infrastructure before it’s too late.

In the world of reliability engineering, we have the reliability maturity matrix that is an assessment tool. We can assess our design or system and how we go about making decisions concerning the reliability of the design or system. The matrix tends to reflect if an organization is primarily reacting to problems or striving to avoid problems in a proactive manner.

It is the proactive or preventative work we do the Seth would call wise and mature. A mature person or organization develops the foresight to anticipate and thus avoid degradation and/or failures.

An Act of Investment

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