Great line! This is key to persuading your management to try new things. Newness for its own sake isnt always worthwhile: what value does it add? How does it profit your employer? How does it provide more value than your pay?
I’m in a great spot right now because I’ve been able to persuade them a lot. My focus is maintainability, security, ci/cd, all of which my employer sees the value of. However I have found these old orphan projects that need a lot of work. While I was able to persuade of the benefits of improving things being worked on, how can I persuade them to spend efforts on things just sitting and rotting, bringing in money at no cost for years? I’m just letting those go as not worth the value, any security issues not exposed to the public or customers
Anyhow, I’ve been talking to another group and we have a great idea, and even a hook to sell it to management. However it’s a bigger initiative than anything I’ve tried, will cost more effort from more people, so yeah …. I’m in the same boat at a new level, trying to figure out how to sell it to leadership