De-Risking
PMI has a whole discipline about risk management. The DevOps movement has several principles to reduce operational risk, such as continuous deployment, infrastructure-as-code, progressive rollout patterns, traffic splitting, and more. Financial institutions might terminate or restrict business relationships with clients and even categories of clients to eliminate risk, hence derisking. Risk management was very popular in the 90s and even 2000s, but it's not dead, IMHO. Nobody talks about risks, nobody even monitors risks. I don't know why that happened or even if it's true for other industries besides technology. The DevOps movement teaches us many things, one of which is post-mortem or blameless incident reviews. However, incident reviews are great practices if done right, meaning having engineers on the call and actually driving lessons learned for real. Besides that, the problem is that we are having after the fact, which only prevents feature problems if we do our hom...