In an IT software situation, an extremely irrational and highly-motivated developer, who takes charge of a software project through sheer force of will rather than competence and leads it in a direction which guarantees failure.
Background: The Don
Quixote of literature had a tendency to do extraordinarily stupid things without thinking them through. But after exhausting unsuccessful attempts to
redirect his ill-fated efforts, people were
loathe to try and stop him on account of his being a few cans short of a six pack.
I am officially referring to my development lead as "
Dev Quixote" from this point on. He's got the idea in his head that everything
under the sun needs to be containerized and run in
Kubernetes; we even have docker-in-docker. On top of that, the larger organization has given up and let him carry on after he convinced management of his "bold" ideas.
