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Many people, especially developers, specifically hate group recognition. People who like group recognition are the easiest to support (if they’re actually good)
by mercutio2 9y ago
Many people, especially developers, specifically hate group recognition. People who like group recognition are the easiest to support (if they’re actually good), but sadly, these folks are the least likely to actually enjoy maintenance work; enjoying group approval correlates with a desire to work on the Big Cool Sexy New, which maintenance work decidedly is not.
You have to know your people, and give them support that motivates them. But that takes (gasp!) good managers.
- ethbro 9y agoI'm curious, how do you get from people who enjoy group recognition are the least likely to enjoy maintenance work? My gut is that it goes the other way around. People who desire to work on the Big Cool Sexy New are often less motivated by peers, and more by personal drive, as by definition most of their peers won't know what the hell BCSN even is. Unless the person in question is working in a 100% BCSN shop, in which case there's likely to be fewer maintenance tasks in the first place as the codebase will be fresher.