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This one hits close to home, I'm very much guilty of this. It's hard to delegate some of this stuff when your company is small. There's no budget for full time (.*)Ops when you're starting out as a software shop. Once a bit of money starts to roll in, there are other priorities to spend it on. And if you're anything like me, you enjoy the variety that this hodgepodge of responsibilities brings. Of course, this is a massive business risk in disguise.

I will try to mend my ways. But I doubt mgmt will be wanting to hire a team of 6 FTEs to manage the stuff that I've been managing on the side ...



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