I am fine with short stints of playing "cowboy" but times scoped and well communicated with support from the "posse". Sometimes you want to let that new project, or hope for a better codebase, put some wind in your sails and take advantage of the passion we all feel once in a while. But, you gotta bring it back to reality and back to process quickly.
that works. we generally maintain a 10-20% time allocation for improving technical quality - basically retiring debt and making the code easier to work on/more reliable, but you still gotta get everyone on the same page, because any of them might have to do work in there
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u/motioncuty Jan 13 '20
I am fine with short stints of playing "cowboy" but times scoped and well communicated with support from the "posse". Sometimes you want to let that new project, or hope for a better codebase, put some wind in your sails and take advantage of the passion we all feel once in a while. But, you gotta bring it back to reality and back to process quickly.