I'm currently working with kind of scrum environment. Why kinda? It's because sprint period is rather longer than usual (4-5 weeks) and no standup meeting. The same part is that each sprint I get new task(s). By now, the tasks I've got assigned were not really related so each time I need to look into something I don't know (of course product specific thing). Thus hop on hop off projects.
It might be only me but if I don't have long term commitment of a project, then I lose interest and start writing crappy code. This is because I start thinking that "I would move to next something I don't know anyway why should I write maintanable code?". Probably, I don't feel any responsibility to the code I'll never see in future. (Plus, the current code base is really pile of shit, I don't want to swin into that. Too risky...)
What happen if I'm such a state? For example:
- Start using copy&paste instead of extracting common use-case somewhere usable place.
- Using magic number/string as everybody is doing.
- No tests (well, I don't think there's a culture writing a test in this company...)
The funny thing about this is that my company is actually developing one product however they don't assign to the same project (so far) or don't have long term assignment. Each task must be done at most a month. I understand that's the basic idea of scrum. But by now, I can only see the greate failure, such as:
- Wrongly abstracted classes
- No tests
- Copy&pasted code
- Only few people know the structure of code/architecture
- No refactoring (of cource, there's no efficient tests!)
- etc.
Or maybe I'm considered as one of useless developers so they don't want me to do anything but piling crap. That's fine by me, as long as they pay my salary.
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