Comfortable way

Original on Live Space:Thu May 11 10:41:19 CST 2006

I work together with several other Chinese engineers under a US boss. My boss asked me one day if I noticed the recent low performance of the team.

 

This was true, and the morale of the team was low.
But another fact is my team members are good coders, they are very productive in the previous projects.
And yet there was a third fact: we just transferred from another boss. This made things not so funny.

 

The actual reason is the engineer are not working in their comfortable way.

 

Our boss prefers design in detail first.
My colleagues believe the design will come out during coding. In previous projects, they keep moving fast and do a lot of refactoring when possible.

 

The boss thinks any change is possible in design phase, including a total different solution.
But you know how hard for a coder to discard code!

 

So they are not in a team. A team should work in a same way but now everyone just sticked to his own methodology. I believe the is no best way in software development. But an unhappy person could never be productive.

 

The good news was I had good relationship with both side. So I tried my best to influence

them and we eventually shifted to a new track in a painless way. At least the subtle atmosphere has gone in the office.

 

Life is too short to hate your job.

 

Tag: methodology communication