jacobyoder

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by jacobyoder 4y ago
Have worked with this for a while - multiple positions where "hey, just lead by example" which... never works. I was referred to as a "lead developer" on a small team, but everyone would still defer to (or explicitly se
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
> If the average velocity per engineer on a team is 10 story points per sprint, a 10x developer is not going to complete 100 story points in the same sprint. That's impossible. Is it? We had a sprint in march. Estimated 60 story p
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
Partially through trial and error, partially from other people, partially from books, etc. It's not so much that "these young kids won't listen" that's annoying, but this mantra of "we're all here to learn
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by jacobyoder 4y ago
Accepting some advice or input on an individual item vs having someone 'manage' you are different beasts. As I come up to 50, and work with a group of folks ranging from 28-32... the age and experience gaps are highlighted often.
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by jacobyoder 5y ago
being given deadlines ("get XYZ done by march 1")... i take that as... "this needs to be done by march 1". This was very much more towards 'nepotism' than "oh he's just so pleasant". Colleague (
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by jacobyoder 5y ago
reversedly, I was at a company where I kept focusing on 'stuff', trying to respond on time, hit deadlines, etc. Went to lunch with someone and he kept saying "chill out, don't sweat it". We were late back from lun
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by jacobyoder 5y ago
I'm 99% certain it was Top Gun, and also, IIRC, it was because it had a Pepsi ad bundled with it before the movie (a somewhat groundbreaking move at the time). That subsidized the 'cost' of the movie on tape, reportedly. EDI
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by jacobyoder 5y ago
Why not just say "Agile Works Sometimes"? Or "Agile Can Work"? Because when "Agile Works" is touted, and then things go wrong, people get blamed, vs the actual processes and concepts. If "Agile Works&qu
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by jacobyoder 5y ago
> Suffice it to say, it's all been accounted for. Agile works. And if you are doing "Agile" but it's not working... then you're Doing It Wrong(tm). Right?
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by jacobyoder 5y ago
I'm ... late 40s. Have been paid for working on software development in some capacity for... 28 years (first paid contract was 1993), and did hobby/amateur for several years before that. I'm contracting with a couple differe
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by jacobyoder 5y ago
I've gone further in some of these, but sometimes it gets to "there's not enough time or people to do X". There's been some cases where "I missed X - there's not enough time to check everything and I misse
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by jacobyoder 5y ago
Yes. As more management layers/people are added, people are all wanting to be "more professional", and seeing "oh, we did formal written RCAs on production events at my last company, we need to do that here". I did
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by jacobyoder 5y ago
i'm currently the only developer on a project. i now have ... 3-5 'managers' (depending on how you count) involved in planning/direction. PM on "my" side, PM on "client's" side, PO on "cli
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by jacobyoder 7y ago
"If a client gives you a design to implement, make your implementation pixel-perfect. It’s crazy how sloppy some developers are; the client put together that PSD for a reason" Even when the various mockups are in conflict with eac
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by jacobyoder 7y ago
> As a tech lead / team lead over the last five years in a small East Coast market I've experienced real difficulty finding competent Software Engineers at any level Amen. I've been in a few US markets (non CA/NY) ov
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by jacobyoder 8y ago
Wow - you're getting rejection letters/emails? You're doing much better than I've been faring. Have reached out to around 25-30 places in the last 2 months - 2 have actually responded with "you're not a fit&q
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by jacobyoder 8y ago
that's still 'before sleep', isn't it?
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by jacobyoder 8y ago
paganel is saving time by no thinking about the issue, so 'winning' in some sense. However... you don't know what the brand is. The brand may be the store brand, which... while it's brand loyalty, is almost always the ch
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by jacobyoder 8y ago
> usual items I purchased and some of those items are on sale Often the "deals" are "buy 3, get one free", where the per unit price might be a bit less than a single unit, but if you only went in for 1, but ended up b
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by jacobyoder 8y ago
I've talked with a number of recruiters - 2 specifically indicated that they had arrangements with the end client - essentially an exclusivity deal. Once they revealed the client name to me, they'd let the client know, and if I m
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by jacobyoder 8y ago
The recruiters I've known would document their outreach to you, and notify the company that'd we'd spoken. If they'd specifically contacted me, the I bypassed them, they may still get paid somehow (but I'd lose wha
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by jacobyoder 8y ago
> Framing this product in terms of time spent rather than value created gives rise to all the wrong incentives Mostly agreed, however, when you leave the determination of the value created in someone else's hands, other wrong incent
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by jacobyoder 8y ago
"People have told me for an app of this caliber" Also, that's not really a good yardstick to use. Bigger issue for you is... you. Even without looking for outsized "profits", you have living costs. Assuming you
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by jacobyoder 8y ago
"The design is already done" I've heard this one hundreds of times over the years, and it's actually never been the case. Ever. There's always some functionality question that the design creates/raises&#x