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0 pointsprepend6y ago0 comments

I’ve found it really helpful to communicate and train funders to learn how to watch software being built. It takes time to teach someone to look at builds and tests and growing code and activity and demo releases. It also takes time to teach developers not to game this.

It’s amazing how much this helps build trust. It’s hard when there truly are big giant components that take a long time between commits and builds. But I think those are much rarer than programmers think and say.

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lovich6y ago· 1 in thread

>It also takes time to teach developers not to game this.

That's a massive ask unless management stops using their old style of management immediately while learning instead of slowly transitioning. There is zero reason for employees to stop protecting themselves from their incompetent managers. This is especially true in software where the average job length is much shorter, so you get less of a benefit from investing time into helping train a boss

prependOP6y ago

The reason is trust. That’s nonzero but really hard to establish.

I’ve seen projects with untrustworthy devs and untrustworthy managers. Oddly sometimes that worked. But I’m too old to work in hellish environments for pay.

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