More Bad Apples

Over the last week I have received many comments on my recent post about bad apples, it seems to have resonated with a lot of people in the industry ( many of whom already read the great coding horror blog ). The two common questions have been, i) how do you spot it? , ii) what do you do?

The first is easier than the last, in general people will go dark and that becomes noticeable in communication skills, lack of documentation and general mood of self-despair. the less common variant is the supreme antagonist where the person will constantly pick fights which ironically they loose as their arguments are borne out of frustration with themselves not reality.

The second ( what to do ) is the hard one, I would hope that in most cases a sit down with the individual will sort out most problems. In fact most problems between people occur due to lack of communication, obviously there are politics and ego’s to content with

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