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This seems to be an over-engineered solution to this problem. In my experience developers do pretty well balancing picking up unfamiliar technologies with doing
by tdb7893 10y ago
This seems to be an over-engineered solution to this problem. In my experience developers do pretty well balancing picking up unfamiliar technologies with doing things that they already know well. This really only make sense to me if you don't allow developers to choose what tasks they work on themselves.
- hga 10y agoThis really only make sense to me if you don't allow developers to choose what tasks they work on themselves. Which is nearly universal, in my experience which is now quite stale, and from the many current reports we hear about the horrors of closed allocation in the field. I keep thinking back to the hardware engineer who was also pretty good at Python who was hired by Google, who then make him write Python hardware testing code. Not wanting to end his primary career, he of course had to quit ASAP. See also "micro-management", especially I'll add by managers who are failed software developers, which was an all too common thing back when I was in the workforce (through spring 2004).