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Remember, technical workers, you must grind all you soft skills in addition to the technical ones, so that you can successfully interact with those people hired
by marcosdumay 10mo ago
Remember, technical workers, you must grind all you soft skills in addition to the technical ones, so that you can successfully interact with those people hired exclusively to use their soft skills.
- kube-system 10mo agoEngineers just need to have good enough soft skills to effectively communicate. Engineers who struggle to do that are just as bad at their job as business managers who aren’t technical enough to operate Microsoft Office. There’s a minimum of both hard and soft skills that anyone in a professional environment should have.
- lolive 10mo agoBizness needs to understand that scalable reliable durable solutions take time to craft properly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9wn633vl_c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9wn633vl_c
- kube-system 10mo agoEngineers need to understand that those requirements don’t apply to every project. https://res.cloudinary.com/monday-blogs/w_1000,h_561,c_fit/fl_lossy,f_auto,q_auto/wp-blog/2020/12/image2-11.png https://res.cloudinary.com/monday-blogs/w_1000,h_561,c_fit/f...
- lolive 10mo agoHow does an engineer know that he is involved in a bozo-driven PoC or in a technical deathtrap that will end up as the core business of the company?
- marcosdumay 10mo agoOh, that's easy. Can you point any real person waiting to use the thing? In fact, that's probably the easiest question to answer on this entire discussion.
- kube-system 10mo agoAgain, by communicating. If someone doesn't know what they are building, who they are building it for, and why -- then they do not have a solid grasp of the requirements.
- lolive 10mo agoNever saw a subcontracting requirement document, stating "the solution is for a bozo-project. so don't spend ages making it robust for the future"
- kube-system 10mo agoEffectively communicating as an engineer is not “reading a requirements document”. If you’re just blindly implementing someone else tech spec, you’re not doing any engineering, you’re just programming.