What bad developers say and what to do about it

I am still alive and I am still blogging, just not here so much ;-)
I blog more on my company Zühlke blog, on my technology tumblr blog Gfader brain noise, and another tumblr about Stop doing Agile - Business Agility - my adventures with organisations that want to improve.

So this is a little traffic generating, SEO link exchanging, cross post:

 

I talk to a lot of people (if the day is long enough) and so I get them to ask interesting questions like:

“What have you learned recently?”
or
“What is your top 1 goal for 2020?”

These questions and more leads us to interesting conversations about personal development and personal goals that a person has. Being a Scrum.org Trainer, I like to ask people questions especially related to software development so I ask them:

“How well are your teams doing?”

“How do you know?”

“What do you think is the content of the ‘Professional Scrum Developer’ class?“.

Especially to the last question I get this face

Figure: “No clue” from http://xenaandjonesgiflibrary.tumblr.com/post/42761898144

 

Read the full blog post on our Zühlke Blog: 5 things bad developers say and what to do about it.

And by the way…

Here are the follow ups:

• Can you find the 3 smells in “I added a Refactoring Story for the next Cleanup Sprint”?
• Can you find the 3 smells in “The requirement #721 doesn’t meet the Definition of Ready”
• Can you find the 5 smells in “I reviewed your code last night and deleted all of it since it’s crap
• What’s wrong with: “I don’t write any tests since I am not a tester”?