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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Oh yeah, fun fact, in my former and current job every year we get invited to a town halls with some executive and every year we hear the complaints that we can’t keep employees.

    Every year I ask the same question, “We keep hearing that we have a attrition problem so why do we keep chasing the industry standard for pay and benefits, why can’t we adjust our pay scale and promotion process to actual reward performance to actually keep our high performers?”

    Every year, is a non-answer, nothing changes, we lose good people and only keep our industry standard people.

    Though it was funny that since I’m on multiple projects/teams I did get the same speil multiple times from the same person and the third time in two years I got called I didn’t even have to ask before I got the boiler plate.





  • Agile, SAFe, V model, waterfall. I’ve done a shit ton of different models of software development in my twenty years and each one leads to the same damn scope creep if you don’t have leaders that push back against the customer and their expectations.

    Every methodology sucks until you’ve moved to the new one but I will say that waterfall belongs in a special level of hell and at least with the agile framework I as a tech lead can push back more effectively against the acceptance of increases scope and push things to the right.