Good morning

Is that how you work?

That's how I feel when I'm working sometimes.

That's how I worked when the boss was making his rounds.

Something about people sitting quietly and thinking seemed off to him.

Well, I'm exaggerating. The "boss" I'm talking about never actually came around my office. Though, he was known for focusing more on appearance of productivity than productivity itself.

You can ask about that here.

Thanks. My situation is this. I've been working as a developer for 10 months now (it's my first job). It's a small company, 25 employees (we were 15 when I started). I've been in 3 projects so far: One with a senior dev, a semisenior dev, another junior and a QA for a local client; one with a semisenior dev for a client abroad (US client, I live in Argentina); and a project for my boss's father's company where I was the only dev, doing maintenance and a couple of new features. Always java and JS

On the meantime there was a small project in wordpress + php where a semisenior dev was doing all the heavy lifting. This guy left on a 4-month vacation, and suddenly my boss tells me I'll be working in this wordpress project so that I learn the tech stack and later I'll be assigned to a new project (website with 1M visits a month) using wordpress and php

I know for a fact none of the senior or semisenior devs will be available for this new project. only people with even less experience than me. I fear I'll be required to do all the heavy lifting, solve everyone's doubts, etc, since the guys in other projects don't know php. As of today I've had 1 week of experience with wordpress and php. How can I prepare myself to succeed on such a thing, or at least fail gracefully?

one more vote delete please

Not there yet, rep wise...

@Blueriver I'm not sure there is a good way. You tend to learn by doing. Some things can be translated across projects. Focus on what's lacking in your organization, though. If the shortage is in technical skills, focus on the technology stack going in. If the shortage is in project management, learn project management skills and try to get some time from others for tech stack. That kind of thing.

@MetaFight I'm not one for appearances. But a big screen TV with a created vs resolved chart, unittests passing, QA dashboard, etc... would probably help create the right focus for appearances' sake.

@Blueriver 4 month vacation? that's more of a sabbatical than a vacation.

Thanks @ThomasOwens

You're right @AaronHall. I was struggling to find the right word

So were/are there any designated tickets you should start working on? Or maybe you should just start going through tickets and look for something easy.