Your Job Is Not to Write Code

Your job is to persuade the team that you manage to use best practices. If you fail how do you expect them to succeed?

Maybe your role would be better filled by someone with a more technical background. Please don't feel like I'm picking on you. I'm sure you are really smart, but you unfortunately are not equipped to guide young developers.

Maybe you could hire someone to do this for you. Then you could spend more time doing things that you are good at, like talking down to people who are willing to swallow your shit.

To be completely honest, is there an environment that can be classified as 'well managed' that does not exhibit these tendencies? This largely seems like core competencies of a good dev being manifested through a management body that needs to get some sort of credit. I feel like this is some sort of piece trying to grab credit with an engineering team as a PR move.

Building a quality product for the CLIENT (your users) seems to be the basic idea of most people and places I've worked with and for.

Thank you for reminding us to test our code both locally and in production. I always forget those pesky details.