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Make it easy to write objectives

04 February, 2023 - 333 words
I have never worked with a software developer who enjoyed writing their quarterly or annual objectives. Most had been previously burned out by laborious processes which either meant two objectives take hours to write, or they’re easy to write but vague enough that they take hours to evidence every 3 months. In some cases they’ve even had objectives in which they had no say because they w...

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Why contracting developers are a giant pain in the ass

04 September, 2015 - 119 words
I have just read Why contracting developers refuse to go permanent. It says: Working with legacy technology is something the developers I spoke to were not particularly fond of. They explained that these pieces of software are often built using outdated methodologies and poorly docum...

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