Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by ineedasername on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:27PM
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It seems like quality code management gets passed over by (bad) management because it looks like it doesn't directly move the project forward.
Which is strange because those same managers may be full adherents to micro tasking projects in a project management system whose purpose is basically to do for the project what code management does for the code itself.
In my workplace, we've recently had leadership that appreciates these things, and the difference is night & day. Simple requests from "stakeholders" (I hate that term) are often filled in days, or same day, instead of weeks. I think it helps tremendously that the primary manager is also a coder herself, and still codes ~25% of her job.
Which is strange because those same managers may be full adherents to micro tasking projects in a project management system whose purpose is basically to do for the project what code management does for the code itself.
In my workplace, we've recently had leadership that appreciates these things, and the difference is night & day. Simple requests from "stakeholders" (I hate that term) are often filled in days, or same day, instead of weeks. I think it helps tremendously that the primary manager is also a coder herself, and still codes ~25% of her job.