I've been working for 6 months now, and the boss tells me he's not satisfied with my work compared to someone that has 15+ years experience. He clearly states that for him - it's more important lines of code, than planning and defining the architecture which he don't like because that doesn't provide anything...

Of course, I can just jump into the code if that is whats important. I've seen the code produced by the other guy, and its shit.

The guy is a talker, and knows how to talk. I'm more like, hey lets create a simple design prototype or do some UML diagrams to get a better visualization of what we need.

Anyway, its just annoying to be compared to someone with many years of experience, its not that I can achieve it overnight...

mmm do that company enforces the planning of their stuff? diagrams of any type? are you de only one with initiatives for going full uml(eing) ?

My two cents: what's your role in the company? If you are a junior and your senior or your lead developer don't do that, don't tell you to either, then don't do it.

Moreover if the product manager or the highest boss in the company don't give a fuck about planning, why should you try it? I'm not telling you to be like them, just these two things: if you can force them to do their work with a little planning, I mean if your role has the power to do so(you being a boss) then, that's good, because they'll accept to improve their process and maybe they see the worth of it. If you don't, you are the freshest junior, have no power at all in the management (etc etc area), don't sweat it, they won't listen and would expect you do the work as they do. Try to learn the good things over your work as much as you can, then leave for a better place. :)

PS: I always thought of uml being used only in companies with a nightmarish bureaucracy

Uh... I can always save several hours of useless planning with a few extra days of coding

@JhonDoe The firm does not follow any planning methodologies.

@JhonDoe
Great points!

My role is a fullstack dev with MSc degree in managing Engineering projects. But in short, I'm just the developer.

It looks like I should just shut up and do the work despite if I see the building in fire. I can at least inform but if they don't want to listen then so be it.

@martygeek It depends on the size and requirements of the project. You don't want to build a large infrastructure without any sort of planning, trust me.

@colaguy apparently sarcasm is not in your tool box

@martygeek no, that's a challenge when reading 👌👊

The time frame should have given you a hint... Hours vs days

@martygeek I know, my brain did not parse it as sarcasm. Maybe I should upgrade it to newer version.

@colaguy yup, you did enough and if they don't want to improve, let them be. Just make sure you don't stay with them for too long :)