Buy, build or refuse: an automation decision that survives the demo

Film

Chapters

1. 0:00 The demo is not lying to you
2. 0:07 Whether the task is ready to automate
3. 0:29 A demonstration controls its conditions
4. 0:43 Refuse is the default, not the failure case
5. 0:57 The four gates
6. 1:18 The process is measured today
7. 1:35 One person owns the result by name
8. 1:50 Write the exit before you write the purchase order
9. 2:05 Buy the things every clinic needs
10. 2:27 Build only what you would defend in a board meeting
11. 2:46 What the demo is built to hide
12. 3:07 The rest suddenly want to schedule a follow-up
13. 3:17 Treat all of that as weather
14. 3:26 Where automation must stop

The field note

• Buy, build or refuse: an automation decision that survives the demo