• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    TFW you want to do things good, slow and expensive, but management makes you do them fast, cheap and crap.

    For your entire career.

    Please kill me

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      6 days ago

      TFW you want to do things good, slow and expensive, but management makes you do them fast, cheap and crap.

      For your entire career.

      Please kill me

      i got the sense that some people wanted to when i made this same point about this industry in this same community about a week or so ago.

      i love the duality of lemmy sometimes. lol

    • RagingToad@feddit.nl
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      7 days ago

      Change management! :-)

      Or, if possible, change employer.

      (And I know we’re in meme-land, but I always see it as a developer’s task to inform of the trade-off between fast and good)

      • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 days ago

        Every other skilled trade just says “Fast, Right, or Cheap: pick two.”

        It’s not my fault if they always pick fast and cheap

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          6 days ago

          Okay, sure, do fast. Then:

          • I’ll add a refactor task to the backlog filed under “tech debt”
          • please confirm again that you know we are still behind on security updates and that you’re ok with it because you are responsible for how I spend my hours
          • I’d like more time to spend on bugs before we lose customers.
          • Also I won’t touch that buggy part without taking the time for a rewrite because we did it “fast” per your request and it’s so hard to maintain now that it becomes a time sink on every minor change
          • I know we are under time pressure right now, but as a stakeholder I request we plan a few sprints for improving reliability of our product
          • It’s not “fun” to work on our code. We might lose developers if we do not address this. We both know the good coders will have no problem finding a new job and you’ll end up with the bad ones.
          • Either that, or plan for loss of personnel and the extra time we need for the hiring process and the loss of developer hours