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💻Software Engineer | Game Developer | DevOps | Project Enthusiest | Technical Writer Working to make things simpler. I'll tell you my story as it unfolds 📖
Canada Katılım Mart 2010
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Why haven’t we converged on a /config directory yet?
Chris Sev@chris__sev
fRoNtENd iS My pASsiON
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This actually happened to Evernote. They took the advice of “keep talking to your customers and ship whatever they want” as the only guiding principle for product development. And what ended up happening was paying users liked it, but the product become unintuitive and feature overload for the new user. To the extent that they had to rebuild a version for the new user.
Users don’t always know if they really want something. It’s your job to take the extra step to think on their behalf: whether they really need this. Or can what they ask be done through something much simpler. Or can you solve multiple problems of different users with one new redesign rather than a bunch of changes. The right principle is: “Keep talking and listening to your users, spend the additional time thinking on their behalf what they actually want, and ship that”.

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Tracking time is for bureaucrats. If they make you do it, find another job.
The worst part of my job was always filling out a timesheet.
Nothing made me more miserable than an end-of-day email because I forgot to send my timesheet.
Unfortunately, this is common across the industry. Middle managers want to change the world by pushing numbers on a spreadsheet.
I remember this dude who forced us to report time on every task in JIRA.
Every time we worked on something, we had to do two things:
1. Track how much time we spent working on that issue.
2. Update the estimated time to finish it.
It was a nightmare.
He called out anyone who looked like they had spent too long on something.
What do you think happens?
Everyone started cheating. Nobody cared about delivering anything anymore. The only thing that mattered was that your estimates were as close as possible to the time you reported.
It took an act of God to stop that practice, but I had PTSD until the day I quit.
Does everyone have to do this, or does this only happen in certain companies?

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