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It Doesn't Work That Way in Enterprise
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Summary
Pete Smith discusses the difficulties of being an enterprise developer, the limits set for development in such an environment and what can be done about it.
Bio
Pete Smith is a software consultant based in London with almost 10 years of experience making web applications with ASP.net, specializing in API design and JavaScript browser-based applications. He is the author of Superscribe – a graph based routing framework – and HTTP query library Linq to Querystring, among others.
About the conference
Begun in 2012 this now annual conference hosted in Vilnius, Lithuania brings the best of the developer world to the Baltic's. The overall theme is building stuff, we have a heavy focus on lessons from trenches from the people that were there.
Jun 21, 2015
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It Doesn't Work That Way in Enterprise
by Dennis Redfield,
Some light in the dark.
by Jeff Hain,
It Doesn't Work That Way in Enterprise
by Dennis Redfield,
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Random War Stories from someone with actually very few years in the industry.
Some light in the dark.
by Jeff Hain,
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"A client might see it, and they might want it." (3m30)
Heard that once too :)
A reason for managers not to give developers the time to do things "properly",
is that often neither of them have the slightest idea of what that could mean.
Hence managers try to ensure that developers will just do their crap as quickly
as possible, instead of spending time wandering around cluelessly in the design
space.
Hopefully for the company the team has some good developer who can manage
to make progress aside of cleaning up the crap that gets produced all over the
shared code base by the Net Negative Producing Programmers he is working with.
On the good side, working in such a crappy environment is an opportunity to train
your emotional detachment skills (without getting evil), and once you've done the
hours for your paycheck, to go home and still have the energy to do really
interesting things, more freely and deeply than you could in a company that would
work on similar things.
In other words, not to live of what you live for gives you more flexibility on the
later, albeit constraining you to do things you don't necessarily like.