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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by kelnos on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:34PM (#21087898)
> Often times when engineers are blocked, they work on a lower priority tasks while they wait. Sometimes that is a good thing but other times they get off track.

Not in my experience. Most developers I work with will raise issues in Slack as they come up. That's part of what being an owner of your tasks is about: communicating issues early and often.

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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by mobjack on Friday September 27, 2019 @01:11AM (#21088638)
Senior developers can work like that, but junior engineers need more managing.
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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by kelnos on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:37AM (#21134426)
In this case I think it's the opposite: most junior developers I know are much quick (sometimes a little too quick) to ask for help when they're stuck, while a senior developer's ego might get in the way of raising a flag.
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