I’m a Bad Developer, That’s the Only Reasonable Explanation

Re:I’m a Bad Developer, That’s the Only Reasonable Explanation by jeremiep on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:30PM (#13286679)

You could change jobs. An employer tracking your activities to the minute sounds like a cancerous work place to begin with.

Bad employers are also a thing, and is much more frequent than most people realize. They usually drown you in tools and processes along the way and without much development experience its hard to tell whether they're bad or you are.

You're going to hear about Agile, TDD, code metrics and whatnot. Its all superficial at best and those promoting them don't usually have quality products on their hands to begin with, or have codebases much larger than actually needed. At least from my experience its that way.

Its best to find an employer who can help you grow instead of fitting you in a box.

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Re:I’m a Bad Developer, That’s the Only Reasonable Explanation by rplst8 on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:43PM (#13286807)

I think you are lumping things together where they don't belong. Processes and tools have places. As I've posted previously on the topic, some industries have strict quality standards, and the tools and processes are there to find and prevent bugs from making into fielded systems. These process can an do work, but don't always apply to a basic website or CRUD webapp.

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Re:I’m a Bad Developer, That’s the Only Reasonable Explanation by jeremiep on Friday December 30, 2016 @03:40PM (#13287244)

Oh definitely, I was referring to things like Jira, Scrumm and the likes rather than industry standards.

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Re:I’m a Bad Developer, That’s the Only Reasonable Explanation by ConnorLeet on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:31PM (#13289104)

Tools to help with a process, not to define the process.

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