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> This doesn’t happen when developers have trust they’ll be allowed to refactor although sometimes it’s a case of learned behavior from previous employment. To
by mk89 4y ago
> This doesn’t happen when developers have trust they’ll be allowed to refactor although sometimes it’s a case of learned behavior from previous employment.
To my surprise, this is not always true. Some engineers do things because they have fun, even senior ones, and they will keep on refactoring things until there is a hard stop.
Best is to never generalize. It may depend from team to team, etc.
- evilduck 4y agoYeah, everything is situational. Someone can be a very competent developer, even an congenial coworker, and still be a terrible employee.
- candiddevmike 4y agoIf you don't let them do this from time to time they will quit eventually, IME as a manager. Whether that's beneficial to the org or not is debatable. You can kind of "release the pressure" in a planned manner via hackathons, but those almost always never have the appropriate frequency.