Re:Burnout caused by chronic stress is widespread
by wozer on Saturday March 30, 2019 @07:43PM
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Somehow this even happens with programming managers. I feel like we have a real crisis of leadership in software development.
Re:Burnout caused by chronic stress is widespread
by torqueTorrent on Saturday March 30, 2019 @11:33PM
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I'd buy that for a dollar!
Re:Burnout caused by chronic stress is widespread
by leowoo91 on Sunday March 31, 2019 @05:08AM
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That's mostly because managers underrate the concept of 'optimization' and how features are interconnected. Once a developer makes a mistake, all other things already working, gets broken. Small changes are not so small after all. They need to be understood as a whole, instead of individual updates.
I have a lovely and smart boss but I can not get him to look at stuff properly until after I roll out a potentially massive change to our internal ERP.
Real money on the line as well.
I think a lot of it is that non-programming managers don't really grok on the intrinsic level the vast complexity that can be under the skin of a seemingly simple change.
In fact that is largely our job I guess, to hide all that complexity, when a user selects "order following required stock from supplier" they don't need to know what is happening under neath, they just care about price and when it'll be delivered on a container to one of our sites.