noah mchugh cybersecurity leader. ciso & consultant. cissp, cism.

noah@earth:~$ cat ~/writing/007-killed-the-fleet.md_

007 — BUILDING

I KILLED THE FLEET

We had a fleet of tools doing overlapping jobs, each with an owner who'd left and a renewal date nobody owned. I drew the whole thing on one whiteboard and started crossing things out.

Killing software is a leadership skill. Everyone wants to build. Almost nobody wants to be the person who says this one dies. The fleet is down to three tools and nobody misses the rest.

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