1. Senior Engineers
I had to work with a senior engineer (per our standards). He seems to have about 16 year of work experience on the same platform, .NET since its beginnings. Still it took him four days to make a simple NancyFX based RESTful API. And then about a week for running it in a container. Very hard to make him comprehend the documentation. Or understand conventions in software projects.
2. Architects
Yes, sometimes I feel ashamed that I am called an architect. It seems that wee are a peculiar breed that forgot that we do software. Some of my colleagues have their head so deep into their butts so that they cannot get out of their own paradigms. They consider that the single piece of software is the product on that they worked for years and it could solve all humanity problems by a matter of its configuration. They really have the philosophic stone. Too bad that their product doe not sell. Other consider them some ethereal creatures that do not have to do anything with code(that's peon work) and they stay in slideware land where they draw boxes. GO CODE DUDES! Draw nothing until you have tested at least partially your fucking suppositions. Don't stop on a single solution. Use the architectural methodologies that YOU say that YOU know (ATAM, CABAM, or other mambo-jambo).
3. Build managers
Well, Mordaks. Doing everything to hide their inability of understanding how software is constructed. They are never part of project but hinder projects by enforcing stupid policies and environments. They are irrational and cannot be convinced with arguments. They "know their drill" albeit nobody else does. Correct software is not created by pushing every night a compliant build environment. Correct software is with a good pipeline that means a good version control, fast compilers, TESTS and deploys. Many of them. Not only every 2nd year or so...
4. Myself
I really reached the conclusion that I speak in vain hence I have nothing to gain. So I should shut up and smile as Taylor Durden did when all the skyscrapers were collapsing. It makes no sense to make things right as long nobody cares. Everybody will continue getting its pay check. And nothing good or shippable comes out.
