Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job

Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job by akudha on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:01AM (#33248287)

Glad it worked for you, but in my experience, this doesn't always work. Making everyone a developer and a business analyst is a super stupid idea. This is not something subtle like rotating people to work on different parts of the same codebase. What is even more stupid is that it looks like he decided it unilaterally (based on your comment).

Why should anyone work for a person like this? If a boss decides to make huge changes like this unilaterally without at least talking to the team, why does he deserve a polite conversation from his team?

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Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job by 121789 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @01:52PM (#33251312)

I don't know, there's lots of room for nuance. Maybe the boss asked around and half the team said they felt silo'd and one dimensional, and they wanted a bit more of a "smart person on the team whose core contribution is development" rather than "developer who just takes tickets and builds" mindset. Maybe the edict was a bit more like a proposal. It seems like the manager was willing to be flexible and change his proposal, so I won't necessarily assume bad intent

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