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Don't assign work to developers (blog.in-sight.io)
3 points by epetre 4069 days ago
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I can't really take a blog seriously when the first sentence shows that none of the article was given a second read through.

>Directly assign work to developers instead of letting them choose whatever we they want to work on next from the current iteration may look like a good idea at first.

"whatever we they want" -- Fixed

>incompetent. when in fact,

Missed capitalization. -- Still not fixed

>this whole software — not just the accounting features — but the software as a whole.

'this' should probably be 'the' because 'this' is never specified. What is 'this' software referring to?

E: You may want to replace most instances of 'might' with 'may'. 'Might' typically implies a lower chance of happening than 'may'. It won't drastically change the meaning of any of the sentences, but it will sound a bit more optimistic. It currently implies that there is a large amount of doubt that anyone will succeed because they might do better instead of may do better.

eg.

I might reach the peak of Mt. Everest.

I may go swimming tonight.

This isn't a concrete grammar rule. [0] But if you're trying to sell people on this being a good idea, you may want to show confidence that it may improve things rather than it might improve things.

[0] http://lingohelp.com/english/may-might/