Rot sets in when:
- teams no longer have a real customer, such as “big rewrites” that will ship in 3 years
- teams accept low quality and slack off. One PR isn’t called out and that gives a permission structure for lower quality
- a bad egg gets on the team the wrecks the feelings of emotional safety. The brilliant narcissist the company feels they need to let his/her abusiveness slide
- we throw new hires “into the deep end” because they have to “take their lumps” like we did
- people get territorial over code because they’re insecure and maybe not great developers.
- the customer is ignored to chase the latest cool new thing
- hiring standards are lowered and anybody with a pulse that walked by the tech section in the bookstore is hired
- good developers stop seeing peers, and realize they do all the work, so leave for a healthier team
- tech illiteracy outside the team trumps tech competency in the team. When the manager says “stop writing unit tests, just get the feature done”
- any rumor “hire cheaper labor” causes your best to flee and your least qualified to jockey for status
- teams no longer have a real customer, such as “big rewrites” that will ship in 3 years
- teams accept low quality and slack off. One PR isn’t called out and that gives a permission structure for lower quality
- a bad egg gets on the team the wrecks the feelings of emotional safety. The brilliant narcissist the company feels they need to let his/her abusiveness slide
- we throw new hires “into the deep end” because they have to “take their lumps” like we did
- people get territorial over code because they’re insecure and maybe not great developers.
- the customer is ignored to chase the latest cool new thing
- hiring standards are lowered and anybody with a pulse that walked by the tech section in the bookstore is hired
- good developers stop seeing peers, and realize they do all the work, so leave for a healthier team
- tech illiteracy outside the team trumps tech competency in the team. When the manager says “stop writing unit tests, just get the feature done”
- any rumor “hire cheaper labor” causes your best to flee and your least qualified to jockey for status