{"id":98,"date":"2009-09-05T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/lisa\/post\/2009\/09\/05\/What-are-the-components-of-GSD.aspx"},"modified":"2009-09-05T03:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T03:13:00","slug":"what-are-the-components-of-gsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2009\/09\/05\/what-are-the-components-of-gsd\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the components of GSD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI just got yelled at in a <a href=\"\/lisa\/2009\/07\/11\/XSLT-and-your-mother-dont-speak-C#comment\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"XSLT and your motherdon't speak C\" rel=\"noopener\">Comment by Brad&nbsp;on a recent post<\/a>.&nbsp; In my answer I pointed him to <a href=\"\/lisa\/2007\/09\/21\/The-only-acronym-that-really-counts\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The only acronym that really counts\" rel=\"noopener\">an older post on GSD<\/a>, because I am serious about the mental habits and growth of my team in general.&nbsp; In support of GSD, a removal of any &quot;language tunnel vision&quot; is something of a necessity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen we&#39;re recruiting, we look for a willingness to try new things more than what people actually know.&nbsp;We&#39;re doing that now, so I&#39;ve been thinking about this a lot.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe GSD links back to <a href=\"\/lisa\/2007\/08\/14\/Vista-and-the-Managed-Developer-and-more-mgmt-musings\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Vista and the Managed Developer\" rel=\"noopener\">another old post<\/a>, in which I state, equally seriously, that consistent and disciplined use of a developer tool or tools is no guarantee of productivity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut what is?&nbsp; Developers have to have logical minds, sure.&nbsp; What else, as personal characteristics?\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\tan ability to work independently, and think for yourself, balanced by\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\tthe energy to research when you<strong> can&#39;t<\/strong>&nbsp;find the answer alone\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\ta committment to excellence in the result\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\tan interest in the implications of a requirement, not just a superficial resolution\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\timplicit&nbsp;trust that being taught to fish, rather than giving dinner, is a valuable gift, and shows that the giver trusts <strong>you<\/strong>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n&#8230; what else?<strong>&nbsp; What&#39;s on your list?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got yelled at in a Comment by Brad&nbsp;on a recent post.&nbsp; In my answer I pointed him to an older post on GSD, because I am serious about the mental habits and growth of my team in general.&nbsp; In support of GSD, a removal of any &quot;language tunnel vision&quot; is something of a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2009\/09\/05\/what-are-the-components-of-gsd\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-techspeak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}