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Great list. Another that separates the wheat from the chaff is by making yourself replaceable. To an insecure person (in any profession) this is anathema to mai
by mickeyp 13y ago
Great list. Another that separates the wheat from the chaff is by making yourself replaceable. To an insecure person (in any profession) this is anathema to maintaining a job; to a confident and professional person it is simply a requirement of the job.
- Documenting what you do. If you hoard knowledge or hide it in e-mails or IRC logs you're not helping anybody. If you're guy who changes something that affects other developers but don't send a courtesy e-mail or present your charges (your action being proportionate to the change you're making) -- you're that guy.
- Teaching others your skills. Being a font of knowledge, wisdom and ideas is also important. If the product owner, PM or a junior dev can approach you and get a straight-laced answer tailored to the skill-level individual you're doing really well indeed.
- Every team and company do things differently. Being able to contrast how you're going to do something against what you have done before is another useful skill.
- Caring about the 'boring stuff': release management. configuration management. proper continuous integration. simplifying your build steps. cleaning up hairy code or removing redundant files and gunk from older projects.
- eropple 13y ago> Caring about the 'boring stuff': release management. configuration management. proper continuous integration. simplifying your build steps. cleaning up hairy code or removing redundant files and gunk from older projects. This. This this this. I just took a senior-level gig as a devops/productivity engineer where pretty much my entire job is figuring this stuff out. It is not stuff that juniors often think about, but it can take up a ton of management and seniors' time to get right so they don't have to.
- lifeisstillgood 13y agoit is taking up most of my time - but boy the series of blog posts are shaping up awesome :-)
- eropple 13y agoMan. We haven't yet ramped up on devops blog stuff, but already "bloggable" has become shorthand for "valuable and interesting".
- lifeisstillgood 13y agoyes, it has - strange. I guess it's a function of if you don't have anything worth saying, don't say anything.
- iSnow 13y ago>Caring about the 'boring stuff': release management. configuration management. proper continuous integration. simplifying your build steps. cleaning up hairy code or removing redundant files and gunk from older projects. Sigh careful there. I just got the evil eye from my boss for doing just that. Only care about this kind of maintenance and future-proofing if you work in a tech-savvy company. In other environments where the suits have no understanding of things like technical debt and the value of maintaining a high quality, they will see this as procrastination.
- Chronic26 13y ago+1
- ivanvanderbyl 13y agoI would argue that something that comes with experience expected of a senior engineer is the ability to communicate the cost of technical debt in terms 'business guys' understand.
- pedalpete 13y agoI agree with you, but it is also important to understand when these things are important to the business.