Quality and seniority
Another good article from J. B. – on a software quality. Similar to the Marxist Law of Transformation the development culture can reach a point at which driving forces behind quality/speed relation switch places: at first, rushing can hurt quality, but as soon as you’ve taken the barrier – increasing quality is able to speed up the development.
And how can we get super-sonic? By nurturing real seniority:
I wouldn’t agree though with necessity of changing employers in order to grow – you can find a place for yourself to be the worst from time to time within same company.
P.S. I like looking at the pictures better than reading and I happy to see that bloggers trying to keep up to par with R.I.P. Kathy Sierra’s blog
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I think it is a struggle for any developer to balance the desire to keep pace with ever changing technology and to also be content within a position even if the technology of the company becomes stale.
Personally my own philosophy as a developer has always been "stay current or die". I have seen the "cobal syndrome" in developers who have stayed at companies too long and it is a fate I do not wish to endure.
Right, it must be a some kind of natural self-preservation instinct.
The question is whether the company is able to recognize this notion and use it to its own benefit.
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