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Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer

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Fire your best people

Points for using Office Space.  Fire your best people…reward the lazy ones.  via Reddit.

There's a longstanding aggravation about the guy who goes first dashing out awful code, but being a hero to management and the business while the maintainers coming behind the hero are goats for being slower working with the bad code.  Life isn't fair -- unless you count the times you dropped off bad code on someone else.



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Donn Felker said:

I could not agree more.

# September 25, 2007 11:02 AM

Vikas Kerni said:

Lazy ones do get hard time at start of project by Management. But once they are spoted, they are awarded with complex assignments, where as fast ones only get the routines programming assignment. (Some people may not consider complex assignments as awards).

vikasnetdev.blogspot.com/.../fire-you-best-people.html

# September 25, 2007 2:57 PM

Vikas Kerni said:

This post reminded me of my old post

Why are all great developers not the best Architects and vice-versa?

vikasnetdev.blogspot.com/.../why-are-all-great-developers-not-best.html

# September 27, 2007 2:17 PM

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About Jeremy D. Miller

Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#. Check out Devlicio.us!

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