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- Developers leave after 3 years, - Developers are vastly overrated. They keep developing new frameworks when they’d better spend their time solving business p
by eastbound 3y ago
- Developers leave after 3 years,
- Developers are vastly overrated. They keep developing new frameworks when they’d better spend their time solving business problems. Given their cost, no-one dares telling them anything.
- Can’t motivate them to do tech debt.
- They always suggest to refactor everything.
It’s basically impossible to give business sense to a developer. Otherwise they wouldn’t be developers! But they want to be free.
It’s not a “My boss told me not to do tech debt.”
It’s “Every time I’m given free time to tackle tech debt, I open Draw.io to create charts of what I suggest as a new infrastructure with microkubes.”
- seattle_spring 3y agoHmm that's not how I would describe engineers I work with at all. What sort of companies are you seeing the majority of devs act like this?
- ungreased0675 3y agoI suspect it was an exaggeration to make a point. As an engineer manager, I do agree with the sentiment though. Keeping engineers focused is tough. Allowing them time to burn down tech debt might mean they go off and work on interesting projects instead of something of business value. I’ve also been burned by the “let’s start over and do it right” refactor that resulted in no customer value. Making software is full of tradeoffs.
- oneplane 3y agoThis looks like a description of a team or department that has no product owners and no requirements elicitation process. Quality aspects can be measured, and resulting requirements will mitigate technical debt, unless you put that analysis so far down the backlog that it falls off. But all of that is management or 'team overhead' work.
- dboreham 3y agoMicrokubes.