Software engineering topics I changed my mind on

Have never agreed with a blog post more. Every single bullet point, 10/10. Okay, okay, actually I have one qualm~ > Standups are actually useful for keeping an eye on the newbies. Unfair. Standups are useful for communication between a team in general, if kept brief. If senior engineer X is working on Y and other engineer M has already dealt with Y (unbeknowst to X), it's a great chance for X to say "I'm currently looking for a solution…

After 15 years, I no longer judge past coding decisions, and I think you can save yourself a lot of grief by not waiting as long as I did to realize this. You don’t know the constraints the previous person was under, so you can’t possibly know what you really would have done or what “should” have been done. I mention this because there’s still a tone of, “there is approximately one right way to code” in this article, and…

> 90%, maybe 93%, of project managers, could probably disappear tomorrow to either no effect or a net gain in efficiency. This is more a statement on how many bad project managers there are rather than on the role itself being useless. I've worked as an IC with a lot of PM's over the course of my career - I can definitely bring to mind a few PM's that left a huge impression on the project I was working on…