▲ | PeterWhittaker 15 hours ago | |
The overall tone is one of "father knows best" with plenty of adversarial over and undertones. My favourite example, and perhaps the clearest, is "For example, if you just asked them to change the text on the “Login” button, and they’re talking about new libraries and rewriting the credential store, there’s a good chance your team didn’t understand what you told them." There is an equal or better chance that you don't understand or are completely ignorant of dependencies with which they are intimately familiar, perhaps tangled copypasta created ad nauseam in response to overbearing leaders who could not be bothered to understand. I've seen that more than once. In that specific instance, it would be more helpful to dive into the why while expressing the surprise you actually feel. It might even be better to go straight to "is there something in there that shouldn't be?" If your team has history you lack, one of your first jobs is learning the pain points and gaining enough of their trust that they will show you the scars and explain how they were earned. |