boring and predictable is another way of saying reliable :)
My motto for important deliveries is "Boring is Good". At one of my prior employers, we made a huge transition of 80,000 user accounts from a simple Python textual format on a tree structured UNIX filesystem to a Sybase database. It had to go perfectly. 180 individual steps. No room for error. The "boring is good" theme prevailed. Zero defects. The team wore t-shirts with "Boring is Good" with a big grin.