Coding For A Living Is More Performance Than Code

Source: Dev.to

Performance vs Real Coding

80% of the time, coding is a performance. The other 20% is doing real coding.

Typical Ceremonies

• Scrum ceremonies, meetings, and JIRA:
  • A meeting to present tickets for the next two weeks
  • A meeting to answer questions from the previous meeting
  • A meeting to watch someone enter a number in a text box (poker planning and story points)
  • Meetings to watch someone move a ticket between JIRA lanes (daily meetings)
  • A meeting about all the other meetings (retrospective)

When things go sideways, the performance intensifies with more frequent meetings. Sometimes a team member’s only job is running ceremonies and writing reports.

Impact on Developers

That kills the fun of coding and can make you hate it. This happens everywhere. @sylwia-lask asked in this post if that’s something that only happens at her place. Nope! Even in the best families, as we say in our hometown.

Showing progress matters more than real work. Coding is often just a side quest. A hard truth nobody tells us about.

Conclusion

To succeed as a coder, you need to master the ceremonies as much as the code. That’s why Street‑Smart Coding covers communication and collaboration. Because coding is more than typing symbols.