What makes engineering managers happy?

Here’s what developers can do to make me happy (in no particular order):

• Ask questions.
• Find a problem in the requirements or specification (edge cases).
• Ask for input, help, or validation of complex solutions.
• Discover and share the tradeoffs of a solution.
• Anticipate damaging or malicious user actions.
• Perform a task breakdown before estimating.
• Write readable code:
  • no errors from static code analysis
  • consistent style
  • names conform to project terminology, AKA ubiquitous language
  • documented and commented
• Test.
• Suggest improvements during code reviews.
• Share lessons learned with the team.
• Suggest process improvements.

This can be boiled down to two things:

• communicate
• analyze

Communication is the more important of the two because if you communicate well, it becomes obvious if more analysis is needed.

Together, the above:

• lowers costs
• lowers risk
• lowers defects
• strengthens developers

What makes you happy? Tell me below.