Asheras wrote on Aug 13
th, 2019 at 9:59am:
I only care about how well the devs perform their jobs. Everything else is their business. Personally, I have found Lynn to be communicative on the forums, willing to engage the player base in discussion and having a lot of new ideas on gear and content. I think it is a good example of why businesses should seek to add new voices to their teams.
This is funny. You say you care about how well a dev performs their job but then you proceed to list a bunch of traits and skills that aren't really what a developer does. They're traits and skills typically associated with some sort of community liaison position.
Sure, everyone wants the unicorn employee who's amazing at everything, but the reality is most people are only really good at a few specific things and smart employers will put the right skillsets in the right seats to fully leverage those strengths and simultaneously mitigate the weaknesses.
Personally, I'd rather have devs that know the code they work on inside and out, who understand how to design systems with planned growth and expansion rather than just fixing the immediate problem, and who fully understand the overall, real-world, big-picture impact of the code changes they make.
You're correct in a way though. Lynn would probably be a far better community manager than Cordovan. Having a community manager for DDO who at least has a basic proficiency in using it would be miles better than what we currently have. Cordovan on the other hand is a lost cause.
Asheras wrote on Aug 13
th, 2019 at 9:59am:
Having great retention and low turn over as a business is mostly a blessing but can become also a negative because fresh perspectives are useful. Sometimes a team can become stale and repetitive in how they approach things. At my company I try to bring in new talent periodically. Especially younger talent. I know trashing millennial work ethics is en vogue (although I think the now graduating college students are a new generation and millennials are mostly mid-20's to mid 30's) but I have found that diversity in perspective is useful.
On a side note, we do agree on this. Your comment on the tendency of older generations to bag on the millenials is interesting.
If you haven't seen any of Jason Dorsey's stuff yet, I'd encourage you to check it out. His company has done a bunch of real, scientific and statistic based research on the various generation gaps. He does a lot of speaking engagements, TED talks, etc. on the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f16o9Q0XGEhttps://www.youtube.com/user/thegenyguy