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Discussion on: The Problem With Heroes In Software Development

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Beekey Cheung

I love that we almost have the exact same story!

One issue I've found is convincing CTOs and VPs of engineering who love heroes that they should aim for a different engineering culture. It's something that's hard to argue away with logic and even harder to prove.

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Nick Ma

I think it takes your own time to prove. Once you are in this kind of environment, you are required to put in extra time outside of your work duties to bring it into the team. (ex-Amazon, startup) work.

Since if you are "wasting time" fiddling with infrastructure, why are you not doing actual sprint work.