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Discussion on: The key to developer happiness and how to prevent coding from becoming just another job

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I cannot say that I agree with this article.
In my opinion, you miss the point here, focusing only on the interaction between the managers and your work. This is basically why Agile practices are developed in the first place. A checklist or better communication will not give me more happiness at work, it is useful for doing a better job, but it will not give me back the creative part of the work, or that first feeling of happiness that you wrote so perfectly in the beginning.
After a couple of years in IT, I haven't been happy for a while and I can't tell how many other colleagues feel the same way and would like to quit this job. I have begun to analyze the reasons and I am thinking that part of the problem is precisely this cage of "take and give" tickets to be estimated and solved, with little or no room for creative improvements to propose, linked to technology stacks often decided by other people who they probably no longer work in the company. Basically we are treated like line workers, putting the same bolt into the same piece every day, with constant pressure to finish on time.