TAKES
We have budget. What should we invest more in?
Everyone wants to invest. Mostly in being more themselves.
EVERYONE'S RIGHT
Every answer
AlexThe Architect“The platform. Every team after it gets faster. Eventually.”
JoThe Cowboy“Faster deploys. Bigger laptops. A second coffee machine.”
RileyThe Minimalist“Nothing. Unspent budget has zero moving parts.”
TaylorThe AI Native“Tokens. All of it. The agents will figure out the rest.”
MorganThe Threat Modeler“Fixing last year's pentest findings. Before this year's pentest.”
ChrisThe Sovereign“Hardware. We'll own it outright in eighteen months.”
PatThe Enterprise Adult“Support contracts. Someone answers at 3am, and it's not Chris.”
MayaThe Visionary“Ten bets at once. One of them pays for everything.”
NoraThe User Advocate“Talking to users. It costs a coffee and fixes the roadmap.”
HugoThe Perfectionist“The team. Training, conferences, and free weekends. Except mine.”
RuthThe Maintainer“Documentation. Nobody funds it until the week I retire.”
GregThe Hedger“Earmark it. Spending it is a one-way door.”
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