wtorek, 28 lutego 2017

Astronauts exists. I've just meet one

In 2001 Joel Spolsky has wrote his great blog post about Software Astronauts. I have readed it in 2006, some times heard about astronauts in conferences but never meet any one in my professional life. Up to day. 

The best describe of "typical astronaut" we can find in legendary speak of Wojciech Seliga in Confitura 2012 (java concefence) in 7.45-9.00 (minute) link to his speach

Our astronaut:
- is old 
- excessive opinion about himself
- don't like to write code
- don't understand business domain (this is real scary)
- don't understand our company culture
- don't understand product that we are making (he treats it like another CRUD but we are not making CRUD app)
- all the time talk about the abstraction
- all the time talk about breaking changes in current architecture
- try to fix problems that don't exists
- making conflicts in team

Epilogue: that developer worked in our team about 2 weeks and had been moved to other team with different team leader. That team wants him to implement functionality of some basic control. Instead of that, after a week he don't show his code but came up with L4 (sick leave). 

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