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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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