Re:How terrible code gets written by perfectly sane people
by edw519 on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:30AM
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Assuming that good process fixes bad people
Corollary: Assuming that good process doesn't restrict good people.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves: management decisions that don't account enough for outliers; that is, their best people. Management has never done it, therefore it cannot be done. This, as much as anything else, drives your best developers away.
Give us the hard stuff to do and let us alone to do it. That's all we ask.
Otherwise you're left with terrible code.
Great post. You struck a lot of nerves. Thank you, OP.
Corollary: Assuming that good process doesn't restrict good people.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves: management decisions that don't account enough for outliers; that is, their best people. Management has never done it, therefore it cannot be done. This, as much as anything else, drives your best developers away.
Give us the hard stuff to do and let us alone to do it. That's all we ask.
Otherwise you're left with terrible code.
Great post. You struck a lot of nerves. Thank you, OP.