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title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Don't Tell It's Done When It's Not"
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date = 2019-07-18
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tags = ["en-au", "books", "things i learnt", "personal", "responsibility"]
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You are tired of running the same thing over and over again. You kinda
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remember that something weird may happen, but because you're tired, you tell
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everyone that "It's finished". Don't.
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I must admit that I've done this. Yes, there is that corner case that I didn't
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test. Yes, there is that piece of code that, although it works, it's weird.
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Yes, I left a technical debt behind. But we get tired of looking at the same
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thing over and over. And we get pushed by higher ups to deliver stuff. And
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that's when we say "It's done", when it's not.
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Although we just dodged one, we end up leaving our colleagues -- people that
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really depend on our work -- down. They expect to connect to whatever we are
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doing to keep going. The expect to see the results of their work crystallized
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by ours. And they can't. 'Cause we said "It's done" when it wasn't.
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And you can be sure, as soon as that happens, they will be the first to point,
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in minutes, that it is not done.
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On the other hand, if you say "Almost, but there is this thing that bothers me
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and I think it may give us a headache in the future", they will understand. So
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be clear and transparent about your work.
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{{ chapters(prev_chapter_link="/books/things-i-learnt/responsible-code", prev_chapter_title="Take Responsibility For The Use Of Your Code") }}
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