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How do you do that? Are you able to complete all your tasks in just over half the time? Aren't there meetings after lunch. What about coworkers trying to contac

How do you do that? Are you able to complete all your tasks in just over half the time? Aren't there meetings after lunch. What about coworkers trying to contact you during (the rest of) their workday.

jimbob45 3y ago
You’re not paid for 9-5 hours. You’re paid to get the job done. Sometimes that takes two hours. Sometimes it’s ten hours plus a weekend. It’s very easy to identify (and fire) workers that don’t honor this system.
- suby 3y ago
  I get this logic, but in software development there is effectively an infinite and continually growing list of tasks to do. A lot of large and popular software projects on Github are not closing issues at a faster rate than they accrue.
  - jimbob45 3y ago
    The challenge is software development is planning out software development years in advance. Moving up the deadline years in doesn’t really help anyone because marketing and sales won’t have planned around your new date (see: the surprise release of the Sega Saturn). What matters is being able to stay on track and get back on track.
- tripdout 3y ago
  From my experience there's always more tickets you can pick up.
xyst 3y ago
Personally I’m just more efficient and happen to have people around me be very independent and competent. Having decent project management helps as well. Team is well aware of the product and confident. Very very rare to have knowledge colocated within a specific member of the team. All or most knowledge is well documented as well. On the very rare instance I am actually needed to put out a fire. We have “on-call” rotations (pager duty).
- grepfru_it 3y ago
  Just for reference this is an exception, not the norm. 1pm is when my meetings end (to the extent that I can control) and I can get to work on my real work for the day. This includes meeting with fellow independent and competent developers to ship features. Our software is also in high demand
happytoexplain 3y ago
Time is not even an approximate measure of productivity. I don't know about you, but everybody I know gets way more work done in early hours than in later hours, just as an example.

jimbob45 3y ago

You’re not paid for 9-5 hours. You’re paid to get the job done. Sometimes that takes two hours. Sometimes it’s ten hours plus a weekend. It’s very easy to identify (and fire) workers that don’t honor this system.

suby 3y ago
I get this logic, but in software development there is effectively an infinite and continually growing list of tasks to do. A lot of large and popular software projects on Github are not closing issues at a faster rate than they accrue.
- jimbob45 3y ago
  The challenge is software development is planning out software development years in advance. Moving up the deadline years in doesn’t really help anyone because marketing and sales won’t have planned around your new date (see: the surprise release of the Sega Saturn). What matters is being able to stay on track and get back on track.
tripdout 3y ago
From my experience there's always more tickets you can pick up.

xyst 3y ago

Personally I’m just more efficient and happen to have people around me be very independent and competent. Having decent project management helps as well. Team is well aware of the product and confident. Very very rare to have knowledge colocated within a specific member of the team. All or most knowledge is well documented as well. On the very rare instance I am actually needed to put out a fire. We have “on-call” rotations (pager duty).

grepfru_it 3y ago
Just for reference this is an exception, not the norm. 1pm is when my meetings end (to the extent that I can control) and I can get to work on my real work for the day. This includes meeting with fellow independent and competent developers to ship features. Our software is also in high demand

happytoexplain 3y ago

Time is not even an approximate measure of productivity. I don't know about you, but everybody I know gets way more work done in early hours than in later hours, just as an example.