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    Avi Bryant‏ @avibryant 11 Mar 2014

    How much of what a good engineering manager does is captured by the alternative title of "Yak Shaver & Rubber Duck"?

    8:50 PM - 11 Mar 2014 from Capital, British Columbia
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      1. Brad Greenlee‏ @bgreenlee 12 Mar 2014
        Replying to @avibryant

        @avibryant @marcprecipice is the best rubber duck

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      1. Julien Le Dem‏ @J_ 11 Mar 2014
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        @avibryant a shrink?

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      2. Lennon Day-Reynolds‏ @rcoder 11 Mar 2014
        Replying to @avibryant

        @avibryant: very much the latter; the former is rarer, if only because its hard to have time to shave a really hairy yak

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      3. Avi Bryant‏ @avibryant 11 Mar 2014
        Replying to @rcoder

        @rcoder even if you count non-technical yaks?

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      4. Lennon Day-Reynolds‏ @rcoder 11 Mar 2014
        Replying to @avibryant

        @avibryant: Still important, and still hard unless overall time commitment/meeting load is low. (Mine is right now FWIW.)

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      5. Steven Klaiber Noble‏ @snoble 11 Mar 2014
        Replying to @rcoder

        @rcoder @avibryant I worry about what happens when a yak shaving manager moves on. Leaves no system to behind to shave yaks.

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      2. Peter Seibel‏ @peterseibel 11 Mar 2014
        Replying to @avibryant

        @avibryant Hmmm. Very little in my experience.

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      3. Avi Bryant‏ @avibryant 11 Mar 2014
        Replying to @peterseibel

        @peterseibel it's interesting how varied the responses were to that.

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      4. Peter Seibel‏ @peterseibel 12 Mar 2014
        Replying to @avibryant

        @avibryant Ironically, it turns out that while I was denying that managers are yak shavers, @squarecog was cleaning up a 500-line YAML file.

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      5. Avi Bryant‏ @avibryant 12 Mar 2014
        Replying to @peterseibel

        @peterseibel @squarecog someone's gotta do it.

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      2. Anders‏ @aconbere 11 Mar 2014
        Replying to @avibryant

        @avibryant 50%?

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      3. Ian Malpass‏ @indec 12 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aconbere

        @aconbere @avibryant Yak Shaver, Rubber Duck, and Accepter Of Estimates From Engineers.

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      1. Matthew McEachen‏ @mrm 11 Mar 2014
        Replying to @avibryant

        @avibryant ~66%. There's also the "let's adopt this actively supported open-source tool that suits our needs instead of coding it ourselves"

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      1. T. Rex Skeleton (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)‏ @sorenmacbeth 11 Mar 2014
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        @avibryant don't forget "buzzfeeder"

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      2. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh‏ @alexcruise 11 Mar 2014
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        @avibryant I usually call the latter role "carpool dummy" though :)

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      3. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh‏ @alexcruise 11 Mar 2014
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        @avibryant c.f. the scam with an inflatable doll that rides in the passenger seat so you can use the HOV lane. :)

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      1. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh‏ @alexcruise 11 Mar 2014
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        @avibryant about 80% I'd say :)

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