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Saturday late night wisdom.

Software developers you need to work on communication skills.
Everytime LinkedIn says need a problem solver. It means a guy who can understand what non technical guy is asking for and translate that to a software or at least come up with a example of why he is wrong. Explain them. They are not dumb fellows for asking that feature. You might think the feature is stupid. Don't assume this. Sit with them. Understand thier user flow, understand the frustration your software is causing them. Then you'll see why are asking for that X feature.

Every feature request made is basically my opportunity of understanding of product. Don't wait for users to tell you requirements. Understand and suggest, implement prototypes and show them, a causal question such as "Hey would you think providing a keyboard shortcut for this submission is great?"

Understand our job is not just to write software.

Our job is to solve thier problems using software knowledge.

Don't you agree ?

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  • 3
    Wait, so I'm NOT supposed to cry when someone from marketing is ignorant of some technical thing they should have no concern of?
  • 2
    There is this person where I work that you can't fuguing understand what she wants.

    You ask which color and she goes back to explaining why we see colors...
  • 0
    @Condor how do you tell your doctor about a gnawing pain?
  • 0
    Dude, thank you. I'm appalled at how - what I can only assume are - young devs in this app just shit on managers, users, and everybody who is not a dev for basically just not being a dev
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