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Discussion on: What is the best quality a developer can have?

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Jesse M. Holmes

Enthusiasm is so important. If I'm enthusiastic, I can suck at something new for a long time before I feel like giving up (and I won't). With the right team, it's contagious! Here's a comment from QA on our recent retrospective:

"[The team] saw all defects in Positive way and that was great and appreciable."

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Bruno Costenaro

That's right, but I'm not convinced you can just "muster" Enthusiasm.
There's boring projects I dread doing and fun ones I would spend 20 hours a day coding.

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Cubicle Buddha

I wanna hire that QA engineer!

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Jesse M. Holmes

You can't have her, she's with us! hehehe