Somewhere in the organization, there’s a Jenkins job that nobody wants to touch. The job is mission-critical and deploys to production every Thursday. It was written three years ago by someone who’s since left, references environment variables that may or may not still exist, and the only documentation is a Slack message that reads “Just run it. It works.”
This is automation sprawl, and it’s quietly bleeding the organization’s engineering velocity dry.
The hidden costs nobody tracks
The thing that doesn’t show up in the…
