{"id":87,"date":"2011-07-07T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madprogrammer76.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/07\/mine-mine-mine"},"modified":"2011-07-07T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:50:00","slug":"mine-mine-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andrewpallant.ca\/wordpress\/mine-mine-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mine Mine Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"color:black;\">In any work environment you here things like &#8220;Don&#8217;t step on my toes&#8221;, &#8220;Do not touch my desk or my projects&#8221;. \u00a0Walls are formed to protect what they believe is their own best interest; protecting their job in\u00a0essence. \u00a0Is this really the case though? \u00a0Software developers seem particularly protective because they believe someone may mess something up on them, break something or take credit for something.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"color:black;\">I believe it is time to rip down those walls that we have formed. \u00a0Let others come into our space and collaborate. \u00a0Yes it is sometimes a shock to come back from vacation and find someone has messed with \u201cyour\u201d code, work or tells your customers something different. \u00a0 Reality is though it is not your code, work or your customers. \u00a0 The customers belong to the company you work for along with the code and your work. \u00a0 It is to our best interest to let others do things for us. \u00a0They may find something we had missed, done wrong or have a better way of doing it. \u00a0 From time to time it can even generate a good laugh as we are reading through the code comments.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"color:black;\">Another advantage of not keeping all of the work to\u00a0ourselves\u00a0is we can drop the old in favor of new work. \u00a0 You cannot do everything so you must give up something. \u00a0Old work can get boring sometimes and you become complacent and dull. \u00a0 You need to stay sharp. \u00a0 If you don&#8217;t give up some of your old work \/ customers, you cannot take on new. \u00a0 Taking on new work and customers allows your mind to stay sharp. \u00a0 Allows you to investigate new things rather than dwelling on the old.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"color:black;\">If a Senior Developer shares their work with a junior, the junior then has an\u00a0opportunity\u00a0to learn from the senior. \u00a0 They will be reading through tried and true code and learning &#8220;best practices&#8221;; \u00a0alternatively, the junior than can challenge the senior and perhaps show an old dog new tricks.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"color:black;\">It is to everyone&#8217;s\u00a0advantage\u00a0to share work. \u00a0Teach someone else what you are doing, so that they can do it to. \u00a0This will cut the number of hours you need to spend after hours and it will allow to take stress free vacations, knowing someone else besides you can do the work.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0;\"><span style=\"color:black;\">It is not job security to keep things close to you. \u00a0 It can actually burn you out as an employee and because you cannot take on anything new, it makes you less of a team player. \u00a0 Drop the &#8220;mine, mine, mine&#8221; mentality and share the love. \u00a0 You and your fellow work mates will be better for it.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In any work environment you here things like &#8220;Don&#8217;t step on my toes&#8221;, &#8220;Do not touch my desk or my projects&#8221;. \u00a0Walls are formed to protect what they believe is their own best interest; protecting their job in\u00a0essence. \u00a0Is this really the case though? 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