Define: "Sausage Factory" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Never let the client see the command line. Sell the illusion of automation at all costs."
The unglamorous internal processes required to produce a finalized product.
What does "Sausage Factory" actually mean?
"A terrifying labyrinth of undocumented scripts and duct tape that keeps the client's pristine dashboard from crashing."
"Let's not expose the sausage factory to the stakeholdersStakeholdersThe 15 people who will complain about the final product but refused to attend the requirements meetings.; just show them the final metrics."
"The client loves the new portal, but they have no idea they are looking at a sausage factory of manual database queries on the backend."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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