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Unpopular opinion: most "device management" problems are really bulk-ops problems
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Unpopular opinion: most "device management" problems are really bulk-ops problems

DEV Community: productivity·Growth Marketing·about 15 hours ago
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I work with DuoPlus, so take this with whatever grain of salt you like. But I've been the person doing the tapping long before I was the person writing about it, and I've changed my mind about where the real time goes.

For a while I thought our pain was the phones themselves. Old handsets, dead batteries, the one Pixel that only charges if the cable sits at a certain angle. So we moved to cloud phones, real ARM Android devices we open in the browser, and yes, that fixed the drawer. It did not fix my Tuesdays.

My Tuesdays were the problem.

The boring part nobody budgets for

Here's what a normal week looked like for our small team. A client ships a new build. Someone has to put it on every device that client's people use. Then the old build has to come off the test devices so nobody files a bug against last week's version.…

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