It’s easy to get caught up in the urgency of your main project work and not save time for tooling and automation. Setting aside some time to optimize common workflows will help you have more impact in the long run.
I've always wondered about something. If developers built a tool that multiplies everyone's productivity; does that mean the tool is owned by the company or by the individual/team who created it?
If you build an internal tool then it's definitely owned by the company. If you use your personal laptop and build an external tool though I think you can own it.
I'm not sure though; I just assume the company owns everything I do while employed 😅
Recently wanted to build a tool that would help tester and engineer reproduce a bug with screens user has visited. This would also help with writing up repro on a ticket. What ended up happening was tha I could not do this reliably enough to ship it as team would not tend to use it even if it was inaccurate 1 out of 5 times.
While figuring this, found another API that would effectively help development team resume their development where they left off even after app restart. This saves about 10min per hour per developer. And I only figured out because I was exploring what was possible.
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I've always wondered about something. If developers built a tool that multiplies everyone's productivity; does that mean the tool is owned by the company or by the individual/team who created it?
If you build an internal tool then it's definitely owned by the company. If you use your personal laptop and build an external tool though I think you can own it.
I'm not sure though; I just assume the company owns everything I do while employed 😅
Recently wanted to build a tool that would help tester and engineer reproduce a bug with screens user has visited. This would also help with writing up repro on a ticket. What ended up happening was tha I could not do this reliably enough to ship it as team would not tend to use it even if it was inaccurate 1 out of 5 times.
While figuring this, found another API that would effectively help development team resume their development where they left off even after app restart. This saves about 10min per hour per developer. And I only figured out because I was exploring what was possible.