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by replyifuagree 3y ago
One thing to watch out for is confusing IT work for dev work. I see this a lot with business folks. An example of IT work is installing MS Office on a laptop by hand. An example of dev work is integrating VBA into excel so that office user
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Meteorologists also don't put themselves in my shoes when I ask for sunshine. And you'll be happy to know that these days I suss out the estimate the business team wants and give that estimate. Then carve out more time via scope
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Yep, these days I tend suss out the estimate the person is looking for because the relationship is actually more important to my career longevity. I mean, the estimate is very likely wrong anyway, so they might as well be happy for a bit!
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Yeah if you estimate realistically many companies have a culture that will punish you for not being a team player.
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Programming is like some kinds of work. It is very much unlike operating an established manufacturing facility. But, about two thirds of dev work has a lot of parallels with creating a new manufacturing facility that manufactures a new kin
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Maybe bonus developers on lines of code written? Or my personal favorite, bugs fixed! https://devhumor.com/media/dilbert-s-team-writes-a-minivan
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"No, it's less effort than that"(smartguess.is)
388 points by replyifuagree 3y ago|372 comments
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
>Task Allocation: Using real-time data on each engineer's strengths, past performance, learning curve, and even their preferred working hours, EMAI allocates tasks from the backlog. It uses predictive modeling to optimize for both e
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Archive link: https://archive.ph/Ezk6X
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How Shopify’s anti-meeting, anti-mandatory-office experiment is going(fastcompany.com)
33 points by replyifuagree 3y ago|5 comments
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Steve Ballmer Missed the Truth About the iPhone About as Badly as Possible(dukebasketballreport.com)
1 points by replyifuagree 3y ago|1 comments
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Does ordering something from Amazon and having it reliably show up qualify as wonderful? How about AWS lambda+DynamoDB+S3, a system that allows you to run 10 fairly complex web sites for 6 bucks a month AND reliably stay operational with al
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
A hardware noise generator was cost reduced off of a keno device and a guy working in the Nevada Gaming lab noticed that when the device was reset it would start over in the same spot in the RNG sequence. He kept this discovery to himself
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
If an engineering organization is doing the equivalent of laying on the floor and kicking and screaming that they can't do anything, where signs of this include: * Split up into multiple teams under different kingdom building directors
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
>The truth is Scrum was never a magic bullet and it is downright harmful for many projects. It is useful for highly predictable projects where research component is negligible, for example, CRUD websites AND where you are stuck with unmo
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Yep, Scrum can't fix bad management!
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Yep, if the CFO has this kind of power the R&D pipeline is essentially being run by an accountant. Remember when wall street was complaining about how Bezos was running the company? If an accountant was in charge Amazon would have been
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Sadly the $1000 team doesn't get saved by the $100 scrum master though. You are 100% right that legacy management falls for the SCRUM sales pitch. At one company I worked at the scrum salesman basically bullied the executive team by sa
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Most people have no appreciation for just how much work it takes to actually finish software. This is because unfinished software and finished software often look/feel identical to non-technicals right up until customers discover the t
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Sounds very smart to me! Most engineering VPs/directors I've interacted with have been super excited about pushing more crap out faster. Just today an engineering director was pressuring me to get some change out quickly characte
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Measuring engineering velocity misses all the value(infoworld.com)
5 points by replyifuagree 3y ago|2 comments
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by replyifuagree 4y ago
Apple ecosystem is like that. Especially if you have a family, that chain gets long, wide and each thing comes with a premium pricetag.
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by replyifuagree 4y ago
^ this guy clearly read the whole series!
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Software development is like cooking chicken(charpeni.com)
1 points by replyifuagree 4y ago|0 comments
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by replyifuagree 4y ago
This is one reason legacy companies have a hard time executing on software creation. They fundamentally don't understand wtf those engineers are doing. Just ITT alone there are engineers who have been characterized as daydreaming, an
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by replyifuagree 4y ago
We're seeing the Microsoft under Ballmer story play out on a different time scale at Apple. When the erosion of Apple's innovation engine shows up as a Ballmer revenue growth slump, hopefully Apple will have enough sense to put a
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by replyifuagree 4y ago
This goes x1000 for knowledge work. Great knowledge workers build this amazing model of what is going in in the product they work on in their head that walks out the door with them. We can't prevent people from progressing their care
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by replyifuagree 4y ago
>Ask how much input engineers have on what they are working on. This is the way. Ask this question of people working at a legacy company and they won't be able to meet your eyes.
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by replyifuagree 4y ago
Yeah, this is the real problem. Allowing non-technical managers to dabble in the SDLC is Jira's greatest sin.
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by replyifuagree 4y ago
It seems to me that the us education system rearranges the deck chairs while the ignoring the titanic problem that the schools are designed for the staff, not the kids. I think our school system is approaching a local maxima where the idea

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