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I agree with you. In my opinion, shipping for the sake of shipping and moving to other pastures is as moral as a hit and run on the road.
by pif 7y ago
I agree with you.
In my opinion, shipping for the sake of shipping and moving to other pastures is as moral as a hit and run on the road.
- satyrnein 7y agoInteresting analogy, and I would agree if the developer is intentionally concealing their actions to escape consequences. However, the situation is more often someone inexperienced doing a bad job, or someone experienced doing a bad job because they're crushed by unrealistic deadlines, or someone cutting corners intentionally because the company is in a do-or-die situation. None of these are immoral, but result in the same outcome.
- scarface74 7y agoIf they shipped, gained customers and allowed the company to make money, they did their job.
- fogetti 7y agoI have to ask. Does this mean that maintenance is always someone else's responsibility and never someone's responsibility directly?
- scarface74 7y agoMaintenance is not a “problem” even if I am the maintainer or in my case, the “rearchiterer”. It’s what they are paying me to do. What a company needs at one phase of its existence is different than at another phase. It would be just as wrong for me to come into a company at the beginning of its existence when they are just trying to go from 0 to MVP and worry about unit tests, branching strategy, and “process” as it would be to promote the pioneer to a team lead.