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Project Politics or How to Pass your Proposal through Management

Gabriel on March 26, 2019

It happened again, the frontend test build failed after 40 minutes running. A unit test failed. Funny enough, only 10 of those 40 minutes were cons...
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C.S. Rhymes

Nice article. Politics sometimes gets involved just because people don’t understand exactly what you are saying and they get defensive.

Having something to show, whether it’s a mock up or a prototype, makes it much easier to discuss with non technical people. It’s easier to show people the benefits rather than just talking about them.

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Desi

Great timing as I'm feeling ready to ragequit a project I'm currently on! I'm very bad at the politics of the "showtime" portion, so getting the perspective of realizing that not everyone sees the user-facing issues that I do helps.

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Gabriel

Glad to hear it helped!

Being able to bring other people on-board and care enough to fix your problems is a tough skill but incredibly rewarding.