Re:Ask HN: What are the boring parts of software development?
by ta345345345ff on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:45PM
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Product managers that basically do nothing. Know nothing. Then push it onto the engineers to do their job. Its rife. Analysts much the same (depends on the job of course, but very common).
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Re:Ask HN: What are the boring parts of software development?
by devstein on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @10:45AM
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What would be a better workflow? Would it be useful if Dosu took a first pass at clarifying tickets with PMs?
Re:Ask HN: What are the boring parts of software development?
by scoobitydoobap on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @11:06AM
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In line with this, Product and Customer Success folks who fundamentally don't know how customers are using the product/what their specific use cases are. Really makes further development/problem solving a challenge :)
Re:Ask HN: What are the boring parts of software development?
by contractfella on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @06:02AM
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That's why I want to be PM. No actual work, no deadlines, no hard interviews, no leetcode grind, no system design. And get paid the same
Re:Ask HN: What are the boring parts of software development?
by gardenhedge on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:49AM
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(I am considering this to be lighthearted so I will continue in the same vein) .. No estimating how long each individual piece of their work takes, no tracking their work items on a board, no saying what they did yesterday, everyday, no knowledge sharing or training, no upskilling, no being the expert of anything, no questions being asked of stuff they did 5+ years ago