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Company reluctant to use good development practices; rejecting all my proposals. How can I handle this?
From your question, it seems that you are talking the talk without showing that you can walk the walk.
I've already made some presentations showing changes that need to be made. [...] Presenting very ...
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Company reluctant to use good development practices; rejecting all my proposals. How can I handle this?
Not to be rude, but there are plenty of developers who think they know better than everyone else how things should be done. It's very easy to come into a workplace with a legacy system and identify ...
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Company reluctant to use good development practices; rejecting all my proposals. How can I handle this?
Remember that best practice is not the only valid practice, and that changing existing practice has costs that the company may not want to invest in at this time. Unless you can demonstrate that ...
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Company reluctant to use good development practices; rejecting all my proposals. How can I handle this?
Unless you are in a leadership role (manager, team lead, architecture, or otherwise) that empowers you to make decisions on such matters, the feedback you've received indicates that you need to take a ...
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Company reluctant to use good development practices; rejecting all my proposals. How can I handle this?
Frankly, if you're facing something you didn't make and can't work with, it's easier to simply plot an exit.
Software suffers deep problems in that companies often commission work in a very cavalier ...
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