Define: "Pre-Flight Validation" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Never trust the green checkmark. Have your manual rollback commands typed out in a text file before you hit execute."
The process of automatically checking a system or configuration for errors prior to execution or deployment.
What does "Pre-Flight Validation" actually mean?
"The green checkmark that lies to your face five seconds before nuking the entire BGP table."
"Ensure all code passes pre-flight validation before merging to the main branch."
"The Pre-Flight Validation passed with flying colors, which is why we were so surprised when the BGP routing table instantly vanished."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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