New Programmer’s Survival Manual (for Bruno Matricciano) by Josh Carter

Author:Josh Carter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Pragmatic Bookshelf
ISBN: 978-1-934356-81-4
Publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf, LLC (317151)

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Consider the work you have on your plate. Are there opportunities for early wins? Grab some tasks and truly nail them.

Looking ahead, can you make a dent in your product in a way that others will notice? It may be a shiny new feature, but it could also be fixing an annoying bug, too.

Tip 18 Ace Your Performance Review

[​​White Belt] Your performance review isn’t for a year, but start logging your accomplishments early.

Consider the poor, hapless software manager: once a year she has to write reviews for all her employees and try to state, in objective and quantifiable terms, how they did on a job that’s intrinsically abstract.

Attempts to quantify programmer performance have never gone well. For example, the junior manager might try to measure how much code a programmer writes. During Apple’s get-it-done push to ship the Lisa computer, managers decided to track the lines of code written each week by each programmer. Bill Atkinson reworked a good amount of the graphics code, making it simpler and much faster​—and also shorter. He logged negative 2,000 lines of code for the week.[31] What does a manager do with that?

Of course, that’s your manager’s problem—mostly. It becomes your problem when it’s your performance they’re trying to measure and your paycheck that’s affected.

When it’s time to review your performance for the year, you have one essential goal: you need to give your manager the best information possible so you get the best review possible. This has nothing to do with greed; it’s simply making sure she’s aware of your accomplishments for the year. You’ve worked hard, so get credit for it.

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