Category: Business

Developer Rights Manifesto

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I’m publishing a developer rights manifesto. They can read and support this manifesto for the purpose of not using developers as slaves.

These developer rights cover the rights of all software or hardware developers. These rights include clauses that cover the process of compliance between the employer and the employer. Each employee who accepts these rights is considered a member of this association and is obliged to comply with the compliance process. The purpose of these rights is to address common clauses that protect the employer and the worker doing the work. In the event of a problem with these articles, no matter what the circumstances, the members of the association may change unanimously. All developers who accept this manifesto accept the obligations under which the rights are granted.

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What is Mobbing?

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In simple terms, we can say that;

“one or a few people apply to another person, they are hostile and morally and ethically systematic by their methods inin.”

In the 1980s, Dr. Heinz Leymann used the term mobbing to describe the movements of oppression, violence and intimidation in business life. Leymann is described as people who practice mobbing, extreme control, cowardly, neurotic and power hungry.

What Situations Can Mobbing Occur?

  • Questioning professional competence
  • Feeling untrusted
  • Deliberately giving tasks that cannot be completed within the given time
  • Storage of information from a person
  • Ignoring the person, isolated from the group
  • Reduction of entitlements

Other than that, the person can be shown to be suddenly inadequate, small errors that have not been a problem before can be shown as a very big mistake, and embarrassment actions can be made. This can be done not only by the employer but also by other employees. So some employees by executives can be encouraged to apply mobbing.

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Project From Hell

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A few years ago, I was hired to work as a consultant on a software project for a large French tech company. What I have witnessed there is beyond everything I could possibly have imagined in terms of software engineering. Far more serious than just a lack of professional competence was the utmost contempt for human dignity which at some point made me compare the whole experience to (what I imagine can be) jail. What I relate here is a selected list of topics that should illustrate my point, but check out by yourself.

Scope

Develop a piece of software for a government agency. Low complexity, with a few twists.

Government pays a few million Euros upfront, development is scheduled for two to three years. Company hires a couple of developers to start the job, and keeps doubling team size every 3 months or so as cash starts flowing in.

7 years later, the project is still not in any decent shape. Penalties are running in several thousand Euros per day. Management decides to reduce costs and fires all experimented people, hires people with little or no software experience.

10 years later, given the disastrous state of the project, middle-management decides to hire some people with software engineering experience to get back on tracks. Average turn-over for the newcomers: 3 months, the legal time to leave your job in France.

12 years later, the project is still active. The company recovers daily penalties by billing ever-increasing change requests to the government. The year is 2008.

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