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This only works if you are in charge of the timelines or have a manager who values quality over quantity
by animal_spirits 2y ago
This only works if you are in charge of the timelines or have a manager who values quality over quantity
- ajmurmann 2y agoAnd/or an organization that has the faith and politics that allow to wait till smooth starts paying back and becomes fast. Frequently you also have everyone benefiting from smoothness but not everyone contributing to it which results in the folks who pump out tickets as fast as possible looking like they are just strictly better. Easy to adapt to and game as an IC, but I find it frustrating as a manager.
- netdevnet 2y ago> wait till smooth starts paying back and becomes fast By that time, you will have probably left the company and someone with less care about code quality will come and undo your work. Also, like security, it is hard to show to a manager data and graphs showing how much we are saving
- ajmurmann 2y agoYes, very true. You can only make it work if everyone is bought in and even then it's ready to regress by someone skipping steps and getting praise from the business while other engineers are fixing their stuff.
- KronisLV 2y ago> This only works if you are in charge of the timelines or have a manager who values quality over quantity And also if you're not in a bad starting position: you could have a system that is very hard and slow to work with, meaning that you can't feasibly introduce much easy to use functionality, especially if the domain logic is tightly coupled.