The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
The people who aren’t seeing the problems in the code, have never trained their RAS to look for problems in the code, and so they honestly don’t see them. “The code all looks great to me”. This is why we continue to propagate poor code - because we can’t fix what we can’t see.
We could ask… "If there are no blockers, why isn’t the work done yet?" "If there are no blockers, why are there two tickets with your name on them?" "If there are no blockers, why wasn’t there an update to this ticket today?" Almost certainly you’ll get a list of reasons that is mostly made up of real blockers that the team doesn’t think of as being blockers.
Most people have never experienced real collaboration and they’re convinced that what they already know is as good as it gets. It’s not. What most teams call collaboration is actually coordination. You divide the work up, each person goes off and does their piece, and then you review each other’s output. That’s not collaboration.