[HN Gopher] Two Year Work Retrospective
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       Two Year Work Retrospective
        
       Author : bshanks
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2021-01-13 08:18 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | js8 wrote:
       | What the OP has described is pretty much the "good agile" from
       | the famous Steve Yegge blogpost: http://steve-
       | yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile...
        
         | simpixelated wrote:
         | OP here; yes, definitely! However as a tiny company, we don't
         | have any of the same incentives to make it work like Google
         | does. But it still manages to work because we enjoy the
         | freedom/low-stress environment and want to maintain that, so
         | that means doing enough good work to keep the business alive.
         | Being so small also means that whatever we do has a huge impact
         | on the company, both positive and negative. So while the lack
         | of deadlines reduces stress, there's still the reward of
         | feeling like your work means something at the end of the day.
        
       | bovermyer wrote:
       | This is similar to my own journey from software engineer to
       | manager and back "down" to engineer again, with similar results.
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       | I'm much happier as an individual contributor than I was as a
       | manager.
        
         | simpixelated wrote:
         | Awesome! Glad it has worked out for you. I still feel like I
         | might go back into management someday, but it will need to be
         | an ideal situation.
        
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