career-driven development

Career Driven Development Manifesto

Main principles of effective software development in a big company.

1. Know people who really make decisions about your promotion. It’s not necessary your immediate manager or even your skip manager.
   
   
2. Do whatever it takes to work only on projects and features that are visible and valuable to people from point 1.
   
   
3. If it just works, it’s good enough. Don’t waste time on processes, design docs, tooling improvements, new technologies, refactorings, unit tests. These things never get you promoted.
   
   
4. You don’t really need a feature to work, all you need is to make people think it works.
   
   
5. Don’t let anyone shadow you. Represent your work on any level you can reach.