What I Hate Hearing From Other Developers
1 min
communication
developer
professionalism
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I worked in multiple teams on multiple projects. As the projects and teams changed I could notice same behaviour patterns of my peers. Some of them I liked and adopted, some of them I hate. Here I share a small list of the phrases that I hate to hear from my peers.
- “I introduced breaking changes, let others fix that.”
- “My task broke because of them/him/her.”
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“I will try”. You either do or do not do, there is no “try”.
- “I know we are not going to meet deadlines, let’s see what will happen.”
- “That’s not my responsibility.” or “I don’t want to work on this.”
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“I know this code is a mess, but I won’t refactor it because it’s not me who wrote it.”
- “I don’t have time to write tests.”
- “I don’t care about end users, it’s not my responsibility. I have requirements specification.”
- “Let testers test it. It’s their job.”