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As a developer, the only times I am bored with the work are when there is nothing that I feel I can contribute or there is no sense of ownership in the work. If
by colept 12y ago
As a developer, the only times I am bored with the work are when there is nothing that I feel I can contribute or there is no sense of ownership in the work. If you are just assigning your developer tasks all the time, as a developer it starts to feel like you're a computer mouse, being dragged from place to place. It's kind of debilitating because there's a lot of potential and developers have some insight on angles for creative direction that may not be taken into consideration. If there's nothing of value we can contribute, there's no heart in the work.
Give him some opportunities to pitch some ideas, contribute, or find ways to let the developer be invested in the work. If that is not possible, maybe give him some leeway to do some personal projects or side projects for the company.
- perdunov 12y agoThat's a questionable matter. In every project, there is a little interesting stuff, and the rest is just chores. Even if you're doing your own project, there will be a bunch of boring unpleasant work.
- peri 12y agoSpeaking only for myself, the boring parts of personal/20% work often pay huge dividends when I go back to non-personal work.
- mistaken 12y agoThis. I've just left a company I've worked with for a long time in a lead developer role, because they started saying how to do everything as if my opinion didn't matter at all. There were even cases where I've said that a particular feature is not going to work if I implement it in the way they want and I went ahead to propose an alternative, but the manager just told me to do it that way. 2 weeks later I had to start again when they finally saw that it's not going to work that way and the manager just repeated my proposal and he even had the nerve to say it was his idea...