Cal.com: The Open-Source Calendly Alternative

Re:Cal.com: The Open-Source Calendly Alternative by KyeRussell on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:50PM (#34511755)

We as software developers don’t just get to sit back and blame the money people. We are incredibly incredibly incredibly guilty of piling on shitty features nobody wants because ‘we got that far down the backlog’, don’t want to move on to doing something else, and don’t know when to call it quits.

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Re:Cal.com: The Open-Source Calendly Alternative by baxtr on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:54PM (#34511796)

Ah come on. Sure you’re right. But it’s soooo much more fun to blame the stupid money and management type of people.

They can’t even code!

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Re:Cal.com: The Open-Source Calendly Alternative by fragmede on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:32PM (#34512685)

well, it's because they're separate groups is the problem. The money people don't pay the programmers to sit around and do nothing. so the programmers keep writing more code. if they could just say nope, it's finished, it's done, and step away, and keep getting the paycheck, they wouldn't have to find reasons to keep programming.

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Re:Cal.com: The Open-Source Calendly Alternative by ipaddr on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:35PM (#34512706)

Fiction: Software developers develop whatever they want

Fact: Project owners decide features and project managers assign them to developers.

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Re:Cal.com: The Open-Source Calendly Alternative by dbenn8 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @12:55PM (#34521681)

Grey area: Product managers/owners prioritize the backlog. Engineering has final say on what stories/issues they pull from that backlog based on their deeper knowledge of technical dependencies and similar phenomena.

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