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>"this is the only way we can maintain it". So, when you don't have XP with X tech, but you wrote your hacky solution and the person who has XP with X tech te
by tester756 5y ago
>"this is the only way we can maintain it".
So, when you don't have XP with X tech, but you wrote your hacky solution
and the person who has XP with X tech tells you that other_solution is more maintainble, then probably...
He/She's right.
- milesvp 5y agoI have mixed feelings about this. I’ve seen stuff built by different departments that weren’t core developers. They definitely needed help making sure they had something that could be sustained by the company going forward. Similarly, I’ve been handed unmaintainable trash handed to me by teammates who should have had enough experience to know better. On top of this, I’ve come to appreciate that maintainability is very much context sensitive. What’s unmaintable on an expensive team of engineers can be totally maintainable on a team of cheap interns. Is the solution maintainable by the engineers better? arguably. But the solution maintainable by the interns may well be good enough. So, yeah. I try to be responsive to the needs and capabilities of teams when they request help from me in an organization.