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The only metrics I'm interested in are "# of deadlines met" and "# of acceptance criteria met"
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Measure teams, not individuals. Compare the metrics only against the historical performance of the same team. If the metrics appear to reveal a problem, confirm the existence of the problem before so much as mentioning the metric to anyone on the team.
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Aug 24, 2023 21:38
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We've been given a tool like that which connects to JIRA and GitHub so what we're doing as managers is working out how we can show we're using this 'tool' whilst at the same time, not using the tool.
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Aug 24, 2023 21:50
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Has anyone come across any useful resources, blog posts or whatever, that take the ideas of Team Topologies but apply it to small organizations? I'm rereading it and it's really quite illuminating, we have lots of antipatterns they talk about it, but we only have 15 people and maybe budget for 1 more soon if we're lucky, so we don't really have a lot of room to maneuver in terms of team organization. We're too many to "just wing it" as a single team but too few to be able to draw enough lines to reduce cognitive load as much as I'd like to. Maybe later I'll go deeper into the specifics of how we're organized now and get feedback, just wondering if someone's already written on this. Best idea I have so far is just acknowledge it and plan for growth. I.e. treat one team as if they really are two teams. At least making explicit in their heads that there are two separable value streams they're responsible for, such that whenever growth allows it, splitting will seem natural and somewhat planned ahead for. Edit: in before "sounds like the company itself has too much cognitive load / is it trying to do too much", yes yes of course, let's take that as a given and assume I can't change that.
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SurgicalOntologist posted:Has anyone come across any useful resources, blog posts or whatever, that take the ideas of Team Topologies but apply it to small organizations? I'm rereading it and it's really quite illuminating, we have lots of antipatterns they talk about it, but we only have 15 people and maybe budget for 1 more soon if we're lucky, so we don't really have a lot of room to maneuver in terms of team organization. We're too many to "just wing it" as a single team but too few to be able to draw enough lines to reduce cognitive load as much as I'd like to. Aramoro posted:We've been given a tool like that which connects to JIRA and GitHub so what we're doing as managers is working out how we can show we're using this 'tool' whilst at the same time, not using the tool.
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Aug 25, 2023 00:15
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Harriet Carker posted:I was the number one ranked for LoC in the codebase at my last job because the previous contractors didn’t use semicolons in JS and I turned on a Prettier rule to add them and committed the result. I remember one of our principal engineers did something similar. Some minor but system wide formatting changes. Looked like he wrote the entire platform himself. Because at the time we were a pretty healthy organization, it was just something to laugh at and make 10x engineer jokes about.
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Aug 25, 2023 00:38
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for a long time after someone higher up learned you could count lines of code they kept wondering why all the other teams were performing so poorly compared to us we just used a lot of generated REST API code
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Aug 25, 2023 02:51
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So that book order got marked delivered earlier this week, but they never even came up to the house. Then an order from a different company got marked delivered today, but I never got it. Both times they had used USPS. Where it's about to get really annoying is that the company I work for bought a newer device for me to test on, and it's estimated to show up at my house tomorrow. And the carrier is USPS again 
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Aug 26, 2023 03:49
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Our department finally managed to coax loving IT into a discussion about how to progress about us rewriting our old Foxpro apps. I mean, some delay was acceptable, with what our whole manufacturing plant having been flooded during 2021's European floods, but our initial talks were two years ago and we wanted facts (while I continued developing). Back then we all loosely decided on a web frontend and a Node.JS backend was the way to go. So today, they suddenly backpedalled, because they currently don't have anyone on staff that does Node.JS (the gently caress does that mean, anyway, since there's people doing web development), that could replace me on quitting or death. Even worse, since this is an IBM i shop, they asked me whether I'd be willing to start the backend over in RPGLE.  (The dev guys actually writing RPG want to get the gently caress away from it, but the IT head is a big fan of it.) React was also a point of contention, because the other two web devs over in IT do Angular currently. React was agreed to by said guys two years ago. FML.
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Aug 28, 2023 16:15
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Combat Pretzel posted:Even worse, since this is an IBM i shop, they asked me whether I'd be willing to start the backend over in RPGLE. So they want to go from FoxPro to something from . . . 1959. Have they considered that new-fangled Charles Babbage contraption? Edit: gently caress I kind of want to frame that post for how amazing it is. I have colleagues who think anything invented after mid-2001 is crap, and I thought that was ridiculous enough.
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Yea, this whole situation is ridiculous. It seems that IT head just wants something that integrates with their IBM i stuff with the least effort, which would be the current state of affairs, i.e. RPGLE. Luckily they've hired some new project lead with a recent master in CS that tries to keep him a bit in check with some modicum of success (apparently your opinion is worth gently caress all to the IT head, if you don't have a higher degree, to the detriment to most of the current programmers, of which most are lateral hires). So far it seems that he's not that familiar with web dev stuff yet, because he didn't really know what Node.JS was supposed to be, because I kept mentioning it in the same breath with web services, and he has currently the impression that it's a platform to run web services on. At least he's willing to look into it and get some more information. Another thing that irritated me, that I forgot to mention, was the Typescript thing, when the topic of languages came up, since I use it on the backend. IT head: "We don't do that here, tho. We write our web related stuff in Javascript, none of our guys know Typescript." Tried to explain to them the point of it, but I didn't get the impression that I got anywhere. Hope the new guy does his magic as soon he informs himself some more.
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Aug 28, 2023 17:25
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Well, nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM!
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Sagacity posted:Well, nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM! --edit: Also, they want me to continue developing inside a Citrix desktop environment instead of locally on my laptop. Is this a new thing? On one hand, it's not unreasonable. On the other hand, there's too much cloud in my life and I hate it. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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Aug 28, 2023 17:33
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IBM doesn't need anyone by the balls. Momentum is powerful. Few businesses can afford to ice skate along for long enough to migrate to newer standards, and nobody likes having a dozen different setups according to whatever a given employee liked best when they took on a project.
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You should quit OP
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Yeah I wish. This is also a lateral job change. I'd like to finish this drat project first to have something to refer to.
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Aug 28, 2023 18:53
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"What did you do at your current job?" "I migrated a FoxPro-based back-end to RPGLE: An IBM-proprietary language invented the same year as COBOL." "Why do you want to leave your current job?" "Did I loving stutter?"
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^^^ I hear COBOL jobs are extreme well paid nowadays.Combat Pretzel posted:...TypeScript... IT head: "We don't do that here, tho. We write our web related stuff in Javascript, none of our guys know Typescript." Google posted:Angular is a TypeScript-based, free and open-source single-page web application framework  --edit: AngularJS is EOL since January 2022, so if they're still hugging that one, they'll eventually have to move on. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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Aug 28, 2023 20:39
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Combat Pretzel posted:^^^ I hear COBOL jobs are extreme well paid nowadays.
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Combat Pretzel posted:To be honest, I'm surprised that no one has ever tried to recreate the whole IBM i runtime environment as some open source stuff running on a cluster of commodity hardware. Given how pervasive this poo poo is in old shops, I wonder who IBM has by the balls that nothing the like ever happened. Nobody else does it for the same reasons nobody sells a slot-in competitor to Windows. It would be an insane amount of reverse engineering to do it with a prayer of making it through legal and you'd be facing litigation from one of the most litigious computer companies ever, who has revenue in the tens of billions. With IBM you'd have the additional hurdle of converting customers who have next to zero fault-tolerance (otherwise they'd have gone with something cheaper thirty years ago). Lyesh fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:^^^ I hear COBOL jobs are extreme well paid nowadays. considering how many people are still on CentOS 6, that's got at least another decade in it.
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some people just won't stop calling it angularjs, especially management.
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Combat Pretzel posted:AngularJS is EOL since January 2022, so if they're still hugging that one, they'll eventually have to move on. lol
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Do any of you have a significant other that will troll your friends or others by spewing cocktails of random technology names that they literally know nothing about just for the lulz? My wife likes to blurt poo poo about Ruby to my electrical engineering friends and posted about how I wrote a script for her using: Four copies of The Elephant Book (she knows O'Reilly puts animals on books) left by a dumpster. Apparently that book is about Hadoop. API Calls. Rust. Ruby on Rails (the bestest programming language that I used once in my life, but it makes people angry when she insists). and the cloud. Who the gently caress wants hardware they can actually touch? Last time I got trolled like that was a meet and greet at PyCon by somebody's fiance. Coincidentally, this fiance and my wife were both from Tennessee. Is this something Mountain People do?
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Do any of you have a significant other 
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Combat Pretzel posted:^^^ I hear COBOL jobs are extreme well paid nowadays. the angular/angularjs thing is almost as good as .net framework/.net core/.net
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Do any of you have a significant other that will troll your friends or others by spewing cocktails of random technology names that they literally know nothing about just for the lulz? My wife likes to blurt poo poo about Ruby to my electrical engineering friends and posted about how I wrote a script for her using: Your wife rules just FYI
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Combat Pretzel posted:--edit: AngularJS is EOL since January 2022, so if they're still hugging that one, they'll eventually have to move on. Impressed it lasted that long to be honest. I guess the people saying that there was no urgency to the total rewrite that was the Angular 2 app migration were right.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Do any of you have a significant other that will troll your friends or others by spewing cocktails of random technology names that they literally know nothing about just for the lulz? My wife likes to blurt poo poo about Ruby to my electrical engineering friends and posted about how I wrote a script for her using: most people use internet shitposting or locker rooms for that
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Do any of you have a significant other that will troll your friends or others by spewing cocktails of random technology names that they literally know nothing about just for the lulz? My wife likes to blurt poo poo about Ruby to my electrical engineering friends and posted about how I wrote a script for her using: yes
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Resume question: I've spent the past few years working as a contractor for various large companies. Should I put that on my resume as "Worked at: Staffing Agency with Job Duties: FAANG contractor (+ actual job duties)" or "Worked at FAANG (through Staffing Agency)"? I've mostly done the first, but a recruiter I talked to yesterday suggested the second.
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darthbob88 posted:Resume question: I've spent the past few years working as a contractor for various large companies. Should I put that on my resume as "Worked at: Staffing Agency with Job Duties: FAANG contractor (+ actual job duties)" or "Worked at FAANG (through Staffing Agency)"? I've mostly done the first, but a recruiter I talked to yesterday suggested the second. I would tend to put the second, as long as it's very clear that you were a contractor and not an employee.
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Yeah, I’ve seen “Worked at BigCorp (Contract position)” a bunch, sounds fine.
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If you were there in something akin to a 9-5 working position then yeah absolutely use the latter option, because you were basically an employee in all but contract specifics. If you did any light-touch consulting (i.e. a part-time report or prototype or whatever) then maybe just keep that to the job description at your parent company or you run the risk of overstuffing your CV.
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Does anyone know how hr/ background check would work? Companies will generally call, usually after an offer, to confirm employment, but if I was at x as a consultant of y, it would need to be clear that hr should confirm with y.
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StumblyWumbly posted:Does anyone know how hr/ background check would work? Companies will generally call, usually after an offer, to confirm employment, but if I was at x as a consultant of y, it would need to be clear that hr should confirm with y. When doing a job as one of those "all-but-in-name" contracting jobs, the hr at x will track you as well (just marked as contractor), so x can confirm that you worked there as a contractor.
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Okay I read Designing Data-Intensive Applications, what next? (I also read Soul of a New Machine after recommendations from this thread, really enjoyed it)
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prom candy posted:Okay I read Designing Data-Intensive Applications, what next? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kill-Fire-Manage-Computer-Systems/dp/1718501188
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Got it in my queue already! I'll start it up
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