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Comment by chasing

2 years ago

Alternate lesson: If your manager is telling you to complete tickets, don’t go months and months not doing that thing until you’re on the verge of being fired because — despite being a valuable member of the team — your manager is all confused.

Communication skills. Week 1 Tim could’ve brought up the issue of overall developer productivity with his manager and his manager would’ve at least been aware that Tim wasn’t just playing Minecraft all day.

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_boffin_  2 years ago

Maybe Tim could have also added his name to the tickets as he was pairing and helping the others complete them...

  • chasing  2 years ago

    Yup. This idea that a developer can work his or her genius in a dark corner is flawed.

    If you aren’t communicating what you’re working on, it’s hard to get credit or recognition. And it’s not an ego or bragging thing: It’s just fundamental team communication.

    For example, there may have been constraints that the manager knew about that sheer velocity was key for some reason. Or maybe the manager disagreed that Tim was adding enough value floating around all day. Who knows. But if Tim and his manager were in open communication, at a minimum there wouldn’t be confusion so great that a good engineer almost got shit-canned.