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tobobo | 2 years ago

How do you define difficulty? I’ve seen companies with vastly different opinions on difficulty based on how they’re set up. Can I edit the difficulty based on my own company’s needs?

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dpackard|2 years ago

Definitions we use when rating savings opportunities are below.

Right now users can’t edit the difficulty but that’s helpful feedback if you think it’s something you’d use!

Would you want the ability to change difficulty to one of our fixed difficulty categories or the ability to add a custom difficulty unique to your org (e.g. custom difficulty based on internal approvals/processes at your company)?

Easy: zero downtime, zero performance risk

Medium: zero downtime, potential performance tradeoffs

Hard: downtime required, potential performance tradeoffs

tobobo|2 years ago

This seems like a fair way to split it up and would apply to a broad range of scenarios. I actually lean towards the tool being more opinionated about classifications like these- I’ve seen many tools that bog themselves down because people focus on making granular adjustments to the tool itself rather than using it to execute. A special purpose tool like this should be able to nudge me towards best practices without giving me too many opportunities for distraction!