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Discussion on: What are the unwritten rules of development?

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Carly Ho 🌈

I think mine is actually that if there are rules, they should be written or codified somewhere! Strong communication and making no assumptions about what makes sense to other people I think is a must when working on a development team.

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Phil Ashby

Corollary: a colleague will /always/ forget something important when communicating: most likely because it's the context of their issue and they are inside it. Be prepared to live in the dark for a while as you politely ask for explanations and they surface from their silo... sometimes resolving stuff in the process (hello Rubber Duck debugging!)

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Carly Ho 🌈

Oh, yeah, being prepared to ask questions and walk through stuff with people is like a real key underrated dev skill.