Re:You Don’t Need Superstar Developers
by crdoconnor on Thursday September 21, 2017 @03:44PM
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>Soft skills include things like being able to empathize with others, which is quite important for building usable interfaces
And, as with leaving product management to the professional product managers, it is usually better to leave the designing of UIs to the professional designers.
>And, soft skills are incredibly important for getting along with others
Not having good soft skills is not the same thing as having a toxic personality.
I've known many developers who rarely talked, rarely spoke up during meetings and just quietly got on with their job - building code to spec - and did it really well. They were, sadly, always highly underrated as developers and judging by what I've read in this thread, this is a prejudice that isn't likely to disappear any time soon.
Re:You Don’t Need Superstar Developers
by tbrownaw on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:48PM
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And, as with leaving product management to the professional product managers, it is usually better to leave the designing of UIs to the professional designers.
And, as with leaving product management to the professional product managers, it is usually better to leave the designing of UIs to the professional designers.
>And, soft skills are incredibly important for getting along with others
Not having good soft skills is not the same thing as having a toxic personality.
I've known many developers who rarely talked, rarely spoke up during meetings and just quietly got on with their job - building code to spec - and did it really well. They were, sadly, always highly underrated as developers and judging by what I've read in this thread, this is a prejudice that isn't likely to disappear any time soon.