“Here is a talk which warns against doing this kind of glue work too early in your career”
Warns against doing glue work too early in your career.
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> My suggestion is to find gaps that aren't integration efforts, if possible, that are instead extension efforts. Yes! This can go even further and the technical integration work can easily slip into soft/people/team/project/management integration. Here is a talk which warns against doing this kind of glue work too early in your career: Video: this video Summary article: link
“Based on the talk [0] where the OP suggested it number of times.”
Talk on glue work and promotion, cited to discuss a case.
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Based on the talk [0] where the OP suggested it number of times. She mentions the engineer being rusty and having significantly fewer code contributions than her peers. In general, if the glue person has intermediate knowledge of the codebase, they'd get promoted without much controversy. In such a case, it should not be difficult for them to bang out a couple of features and ship it, for example. [0] this video
“Interesting to think of this in the context of Glue Work.”
Relates glue work to building culture.
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Interesting to think of this in the context of Glue Work. this video Building culture means handling these opposing forces in a productive manner.
