Re:Why some of the best developers keep quitting
by humanrebar on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:06AM
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> I work at a company where developers choose the work.
I meant that as part of professional development, technical leaders should have increasing say over the tasking of themselves and the team they're helping lead. There's lots of room to innovate and experiment on exactly how that works.
I'm thinking on the level of:
- If we haven't deprecated these old machines in 18 months, we're wasting piles of money
- This legacy code is too complex, but it will take some time to remove, so we need to start now
- Given the revenue numbers and the amount of maintenance effort we put into it, this part of the system and these features need to be removed. Let's split off a scrum of three for about a month to do it.
I meant that as part of professional development, technical leaders should have increasing say over the tasking of themselves and the team they're helping lead. There's lots of room to innovate and experiment on exactly how that works.
I'm thinking on the level of:
- If we haven't deprecated these old machines in 18 months, we're wasting piles of money
- This legacy code is too complex, but it will take some time to remove, so we need to start now
- Given the revenue numbers and the amount of maintenance effort we put into it, this part of the system and these features need to be removed. Let's split off a scrum of three for about a month to do it.