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This is why I like written designs and soliciting feedback. Everything is going to have tradeoffs and teams need to get better about explicitly stating them vs
by thinkingkong 6y ago
This is why I like written designs and soliciting feedback. Everything is going to have tradeoffs and teams need to get better about explicitly stating them vs rounding these blind corners and shrugging.
- coderintherye 6y agoAgreed, shared, written feedback on a design provides a public record, meaning there is never any need for expressing "I told you so" because the record is there. If you were right about something and your feedback was ignored, it stands there as testament.
- ziml77 6y agoEven if it's not a full design in writing, important decisions should have a trail. It can be hard to adhere to that, but it's very useful. Life if there's something that you think could bite you, but a manager is very pushy about their way, write it down in an email as a question asking for confirmation. I've had to go back to emails like that, sometimes to actually confirm to the person who made the decision in the first place.