Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Rant 2

 Look around your dev shop and identify anything that qualifies as a "leveling up" or productivity amplifier.  Chances are that if you work for a non-tech company, in a traditional IT cost center, then few of those were initiated by management.  

Automation, CI/CD, IaC, even source control.  Productivity tools like screen sharing, screen recording, wiki's for knowledge sharing, rich chat clients, etc.  These are all typically grass roots efforts where someone had to "fight" for it.  And guess what, that person is no longer with the company, because he/she expended all of their  energy and political capital to put that thing in place.  That team member forced the organization to level up, against its will.


Management will say, "that guy was a pain in the ass".

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