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Manager reflects on failing to define 'finished work' for staff

Original: Short version: I think my biggest failure as a manager was not telling my staff that I considered their boundary point f

A manager writes that his biggest professional failure was never telling his staff that he considered their work finished only when it was running in production. He recalls a programmer who delivered code that worked on her machine but stopped there, and says the mismatch over expectations was ultimately his fault for not making the standard explicit.

Why now: The candid admission about unclear management expectations resonates with developers and managers who have faced similar ambiguity over when work counts as done.

Serge Babka

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