Software development is not a democracy

I hear you disagree. After all, opensource projects are run with great freedom. Everybody can propose new features, make a merge request or create own fork. In the commercial sphere were in last decades evolved several agile methodologies with high degree of freedom.

That’s true, but at the end there’s one or a few people with right to approve and commit to master branch.

Each project needs a leader. Guardian of main idea and .

Think like a…

Everybody think like a Manager 

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ProgrammerJournal records often tends to be too fat. It can affect performance to load all required data to journal them. Talk to Analyst if you find such situation. This is hard to pretend it during analytical phase.
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