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Illegal Move posted:How many of you have to log your time on JIRA or something similar? Where I work, everybody is expected to log all working hours on the tasks they work on, and I'm wondering how common it is. My current workplace uses a time tracking thing, but I only work on one project so I just put 8 hours in to the project each day, very easy. My last workplace though had a time tracking thing (two actually, for some dumb reason) and had you working on multiple things, and wanted you to make sure to log time in the projects each day. There was also never quite enough work to do for the whole day. What everyone ended up doing was just inflating the time they worked on things or finding projects with lots of slack to just throw time in. No one seemed to care or check that the time made that much sense. Just keep making the time work even if it's not fully accurate and don't worry until someone makes you worry about it.
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Ithaqua posted:My company uses spreadsheets for time tracking, despite time tracking actually being important and not bullshit micromanagement given that we're consultants and we charge people money based on these timesheets.  both places I've worked for are consultancies that bill the client. At least with my new place there's no real issue since people are only working on one or two project at a time and are working on it all day so it's not hard to accurately log the time. That last place, not so much.
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Having to put a lot of effort in to time tracking was one of the big reasons I didn't like my last job. It's not so bad when there's not a lot of pressure to cover the whole day and it's more of a way of seeing how long things take, but once you start adding the pressure from management to have the full time it starts to really bum you out.
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Doc Hawkins posted:I'll see your #noestimates, and raise you #noprojects.  That video is an ad for Clash Royale, did you mean this talk?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzglax8LdaM (by the way GOTO Conference on youtube is so great)
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Mar 12, 2016 22:16
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MrMoo posted:That guy is really obnoxious to listen to, starting out with being wrong about GOTO and then he goes all "me, me, me". It's also a bit too long of a talk, could easily be half the length and still drive the same point. Here's some good videos because I have a playlist full of this poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KRYH75wgy4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA4-b7hvWhg And I don't know if I can embed this one but this one is real good: https://vimeo.com/9270320 piratepilates fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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The 2016 Stack Overflow survey results were just published (somehow I always miss submitting data in the survey): https://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016
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Bongo Bill posted:54.5% Javascript on the backend. But does it mean JavaScript specifically for backend code - or JavaScript used as a backend developer. I can't figure out which one and just using JS at all as a backend developer would skew it higher.
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Pretty interesting that employed full time salaries are higher than self-employed and freelance/contractor salaries. I guess after business expenses the high contracting rates even out versus full time.
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Bongo Bill posted:Backend developers are paid more than full-stack ones. Reminds me of. I wonder if that's from a lot of full stack developers doing stuff like agency work or php+minor front-end work that would probably pay lower versus back-end developers that are working for more valuable teams. Like if you were to exclude the full-stack developers that are using PHP I'm guessing the salary difference would even out. I also really like how the female numbers are improving among the young groups, hopefully we'll see a much more equal workforce in the following few years. piratepilates fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Mar 17, 2016 |
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Skandranon posted:The gently caress does Angular mean on the backend? Even if they are talking about pre-rendering Angular pages for fast loading, that is still a front-end concern. I think they're back-end developers primarily (or by title) who end up doing a bit of angular development in their job, or they do backend development for a project that uses angular. I'm actually really surprised at how prevalent angular is on the survey. I knew it was pretty popular but I figured React and Ember were at least closer to it in usage.
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Skandranon posted:Angular2 is also going to crush it this year. Well for everyone's sanity we can only hope.
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Gounads posted:Please say there was a cake sitting in the break room, but she was already gone. Also, who was the first one to dig into it? That's the sociopath of the office. We both know it was the CEO
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HardDisk posted:Man, I just took off 3 weeks PTO and the first day I was back I was already goofing off in the forums quite a bit. Is this burn out already? Sounds like a good Monday to me.
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Vulture Culture posted:8 hours isn't fine for one step (if the interview is based entirely on technical prowess and 0% on team fit, run the gently caress far away). It's fine if you're already between jobs because you can afford to be, or because you're an unencumbered twenty-something or early thirty-something with no other demands on that time. It's not okay for people with multiple jobs, people with children, people with elder care responsibilities, etc. This will be reflected in the demographics of the workplace. What do people mean when they say they test for team fit? It's been a while since I went for interviews and I don't remember much about seeing if I fit in to a team. What would that even be? Making sure the person isn't an rear end in a top hat, or expecting everyone to be wearing suits at the company?
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ratbert90 posted:At my company Marketing is in charge of "Anything customer facing." Get a new job.
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Hey, the backend is almost feature complete, could you start working on a design for the GUI?
Sure can!
No, we aren't going to work on it at all until you give us 100% of everything.
Did he provide code samples?
No, you need to provide me with 100% of everything before I even start intigrating the GUI.
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ratbert90 posted:I deal with marketing maybe 10 times out of the year. Those 10 times are absolutely awful but the other 99% of the time I love my job, coworkers, and bosses. Oh, it's an automatic reaction I've started having reading in this thread, usually it works out pretty well.
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Greatbacon posted:Update: My boss rejected 3 weeks of PTO for a biking trip in Spain, so I put in my two weeks I didn't even have time to tell you to find a new job, good job buddy!
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I've never worked at a place that did real capital A agile (closest I've come is a month on a team that has daily standups and your tasks are assigned in JIRA) but it seems crazy over the top. Are people somewhere finding it actually helpful to go through all this effort with the points and all of this tracking and processes? I've never tried it but it seems like so much added complexity and bookkeeping for nothing.
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Che Delilas posted:They've said it's "not set in stone" yet, and it's at least half a year away, so there may be time for me to conduct a campaign to get them to pull their heads out. I may have to resort to linking to Forbes articles since they don't seem to want to listen to the people that are actually creating the products they sell, but I'm going to give it a try. What's so great about this company versus others that you want to stay after they pull dumb moves like this?
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whats for dinner posted:This is the problem I had early on with my current job and basically the same rules I followed to separate work from the rest of my life. As a result I've been much happier and learned a bunch of cool new stuff. A "Clueless"/sucker according to the Gervais theory, one might say. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
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