> If it's a production outage that's costing $N million a microsecond, yes, I want status updates multiple times daily.
That's what one has sev/incident response procedures for. Put everyone in the entire management chain on a conference call with execs/comms/legal for as long as it takes - and make damn sure the line manager is shielding the actual engineers from this process so they have time to fix the bug.
That's what one has sev/incident response procedures for. Put everyone in the entire management chain on a conference call with execs/comms/legal for as long as it takes - and make damn sure the line manager is shielding the actual engineers from this process so they have time to fix the bug.