[Ma8ee]

Yes, this is my problem. I'm seen as slow, because I take my time to deliver my stuff. And I'm rarely the hero of fixing some outage or some critical bug. Because my stuff works, quietly. The heros are always busy; fixing that bug and extinguishing that fire and delivers the new feature in a day (as soon as they clean up the latest incident). What people see is that I take three days to deliver the same feature. What they don't see is that I don't have to spend in total two weeks (spread over some time), fixing bugs and cleaning up corrupt data for the same feature.

[deafpolygon]

Reminds me of my time as a sysadmin managing over 100 individual linux boxes by myself. Nothing ever broke (in dramatic fashion, I mean) and new stuff were delivered on a steady schedule. I didn't spend all my time fighting fires, so the perception was that I wasn't doing anything amazing. I have to constantly point out the uptime, that every single case that needed it, we always had data recovery, but that was just considered part of my job.