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As a manager, I've always striven to apologize for my errors. I do agree that errors are unavoidable and are bound to happen. That's why I actually never cared
by malikolivier 6y ago
As a manager, I've always striven to apologize for my errors.
I do agree that errors are unavoidable and are bound to happen. That's why I actually never cared at all whether programmers apologize for bugs. Fixing bugs is also part of the software development process after all.
However, I've always believed an apology is important to show humility to my team mates. As a manager, I do not want to appear entitled. Of course, as soon as the error is uncovered, we should prioritize it and fix it. But I do not believe that proceeding to fixing an error is orthogonal to apologizing for it.
We are trying our best to build a company without a guilt culture. In such a position, is apologizing a bad move as a leader? What would you do?
- lenzm 6y agoI'm a manager and I appoligize if it was a stupid mistake made from carelessnes. Apologize if you did something you wouldn't want other people doing. I think context matters too. The industry you're in (what are the consequences of bugs) as well as the part of the codebase (presentation or data integrity) change the acceptability of bugs.