I agree that the expectations on developers are often not aligned with reality, that is the point I am making here. Also on the teaching comment I also agree that training and teaching is key to gaining mastery, in fact one of the quotes in the blog specifically addresses this. About the shitty code comment? I can’t comment on other companies quality of work (actually having been in tech 29 years I can, but I wont), at Nearsoft we’ve seen some code monkey work over the years ourselves, and have had to do a lot of cleaning up of that code, which in turn has gained us a roster of very happy leading software company clients. Finally I am not suggesting working in silos, quite the contrary, I am suggesting working as teams in a coordinated fashion, but without co-dependency that often slows things down.
I agree that the expectations on developers are often not aligned with reality, that is the point I am making here. Also on the teaching comment I also agree that training and teaching is key to gaining mastery, in fact one of the quotes in the blog specifically addresses this. About the shitty code comment? I can’t comment on other companies quality of work (actually having been in tech 29 years I can, but I wont), at Nearsoft we’ve seen some code monkey work over the years ourselves, and have had to do a lot of cleaning up of that code, which in turn has gained us a roster of very happy leading software company clients. Finally I am not suggesting working in silos, quite the contrary, I am suggesting working as teams in a coordinated fashion, but without co-dependency that often slows things down.