Most likely it’s evolved. Beyond what you started doing, beyond what was in the paperwork. Perhaps what is leaps and bounds from where you started two years ago where everyone was elbows apart and now you are miles away from each other. Despite all that, do you know what your job description is? I’m not talking about the one that everyone can pull up from the company website and go “here, this is what I…
What is it that you deliver to your customers? Your team? Your CEO? Your clients? Writing code, building test cases, writing requirements – those aren’t what you deliver – they are the output of what you deliver. Here are some ideas of what you can deliver (written in the I format) I deliver scalable, performant solutions. I deliver software that takes a licking, keeps on ticking, and comes back to life when everything around it…
Let this picture sink in. I don’t know who made it but it’s perfect. If you want every possible test scenario run, then you should be prepared to pay for every random test scenario. The problem isn’t in the code we write (that needs to grow and iterate and develop) but what we are willing to pay for it. If you are using something beyond its means, beyond what it was originally intended to do…
Every team has its fault lines, a divide where multiple faults come together. If you live near the fault line you know it exists. The further you get away from it, the less important it seems or the potential for harm exists because it is “over there” and not near you. At any point in time, it’s the role of the Dev Manager to know what faults will trigger these lines to break and fall…
No one should ever be part of a call that is delivered in this fashion. Your company should have all the breakers in place to ensure this never happens. Hopefully the last of these we ever hear of, but here’s our take on Remotely Prepared – https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/this-weeks-3-minute-mass-zoom-firing And here is one of many articles that references this debacle. All I can say, is something of this magnitude should never be phoned in, and this is what…