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Yes, this is my problem. I'm seen as slow, because I take my time to deliver my stuff. And I'm rarely the hero of fixing some outage or some critical bug. Becau
by Ma8ee 4y ago
Yes, this is my problem. I'm seen as slow, because I take my time to deliver my stuff. And I'm rarely the hero of fixing some outage or some critical bug. Because my stuff works, quietly. The heros are always busy; fixing that bug and extinguishing that fire and delivers the new feature in a day (as soon as they clean up the latest incident). What people see is that I take three days to deliver the same feature. What they don't see is that I don't have to spend in total two weeks (spread over some time), fixing bugs and cleaning up corrupt data for the same feature.
- deafpolygon 4y agoReminds me of my time as a sysadmin managing over 100 individual linux boxes by myself. Nothing ever broke (in dramatic fashion, I mean) and new stuff were delivered on a steady schedule. I didn't spend all my time fighting fires, so the perception was that I wasn't doing anything amazing. I have to constantly point out the uptime, that every single case that needed it, we always had data recovery, but that was just considered part of my job.