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This is an interesting management-training problem. When you're left with a single veteran developer in a team, what to do? The instinct would be to give them e
by gniv 4y ago
This is an interesting management-training problem. When you're left with a single veteran developer in a team, what to do? The instinct would be to give them extra support/leeway etc. But I wonder if the better solution is to simply remove that person from the team and replace them with a junior. Short-term pain but long-term gain, maybe?
- dtech 4y agoThat's only a good idea if the veteran actively prevents the situation from getting better, e.g. by being possesive and contrarian, trives on being the hero etc. This does tend to happen a lot in these situations. The team will also need to have the skill to actually do better. If the veteran is not sabotaging things firing only throws away the most valuable source of knowledge the team has.