The last section is especially important, IMHO: > Strategy 6 Become Invaluable > None of these strategies work if you're not really an excellent contributor.

The last section is especially important, IMHO: > Strategy 6 Become Invaluable > None of these strategies work if you're not really an excellent contributor. If you don't write good code, and lots of it, you're just going to be resented for messing around with bug databases when you "should be" writing code. There's nothing more deadly to your career than having a reputation of being so concerned with process that you don't accomplish anything. It took me a few years to learn this lesson. Every so often I have to re-learn it, when starting in a new environment.