[jooz]

Reading this point I realize is the one Ive improved last year.

After covid crises, many seniors left, and I find myself being the more senior. There a few others seniors around me, but they have been on the same place all their life, so Im the senior with most different experiences.

I often propose/ask other teams to implement changes that I need. Is often challenging, the are contrary to change. Specially if it comes from somebody outside their current team. I follow this approach:

- I try to convince them, with diplomacy. Often what I request is also good for them.

- If they refuse some _internal_ changes I propose, I live with that. If that issue some day impact me, I will communicate with them by opening a ticket. If they dont work on the ticket, will be a project management problem, not an software engineer problem.

- I limit my interactions with them through their interface (ex: REST API provided by their service). On this point I'm rigorous, because the interface is difficult to change once is used by everybody.

In summary, if they have bad implementations or bad design, I try to contain inside a box. Some day a new guy will be able to solve those internal issues. But I trace a line on the interface they provide, and ask for an interface that make sense.