"Death of a Craftsman" by @einarwh nailed why I don't like the whole software craftsmanship narrative.
Crafters obsess on a small part of the overall process of building software (i.e. coding), ignoring (or often belittling) the remaining 80% of building a system. [1/]
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I regularly push the excellent guide on writing a bragging document by
@b0rk https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/ …) to some of my reportees to encourage them to evaluate their contributions holistically. [4/]Show this thread -
In the end, we expect (and we train) engineers to be good system thinkers. We should nudge them to use the same approach towards social systems, instead of shying away from the intrinsic complexity of organizations. [5/]
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@einarwh's article can be found here: https://einarwh.wordpress.com/2020/04/05/death-of-a-craftsman/ … It's the transcript of a talk, but I wasn't able to dig out the link to it to a video recording.Show this thread
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