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I'll see your scenario and raise you..
Biz Mgr: The Client says that we have to have the system do this.
Dev: Well it's not really how the system is designed work.. Who said we could do that and what are the requirements?
Biz Mgr: I'm not sure but this is a deal breaker!
Dev's Boss: Ok, well lets hash out the requirements so we can scope it out and get it into the backlog.
Biz Mgr: Great! Wait, what's a Backlog? We need this right away, Client rolls out Q1.
Dev: WHAT!? It's almost November! So we have to redesign a production system to function in a way it was never designed, for 1 client who can't even give us detailed requirements of how it exactly should work...and we have to have it done yesterday!?
Biz Mgr: Sorry, 6 weeks should be plenty though right? It's not like this a complete rewrite.
Dev: Says to himself "Wow Biz Mgr and now an architect too?"
Having witnessed the recurring symptoms of 'clientitus' throughout my career, It has become much easier for me to "live with myself". Gives me an excuse to use more colorful comments in my code.
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Give an excuse to use non tested technology/methods/procedures in the field, to use dangerous practices, everything will crumb down sometime, why care? all those software are just my experimentation lab, I don't care anymore if it will crash in two days.
"You have to be professional" f*** this, they aren't being professional by accepting this sh*t from clients, that's why this is crazy work, everything is utter sh*t because of this endemic behavior of the managers, they always take deadlines out of their magic hats.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: They may say the same of yours.
No, they don't.
I am actually being called in to clean up their mess.
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Slacker007 wrote: yet these "senior" engineers are still employed. And posting in Q&A.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: And posting in Q&A.
Laughed so hard at this, my soda went out my nose. Ah, the burn.
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And posting "Articles" here as well...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And steal your profile picture
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plagiarised ones?? Which company do they work for?
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Brainblaze, I think...;)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They live by themselves in themselves for themselves, ins't it obvious? I think therefor I am sort of thing I guess
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That's why you need a good peer-review system.
For one thing, it encourages people to make a little more effort to get it right first time, because they realise that trying to save time will cost a lot more.
For another, when everyone is used to others finding gaffes in their work, and critiquing it honestly and openly, it gets rid of any ego problems.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: when everyone is used to others finding gaffes in their work, and critiquing it honestly and openly, it gets rid of any ego problems. Because it leads to homicide and suicide and, thus, removes the cause of the ego problems ?
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
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There have been times I've considered homicide as a method for handling this, yes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My experience is, that people who are writing bad code have also bad habits. So I often critize bad code to hit these guys.
God bless we only a small amount of this slack. (but I know one - one of my collegues)
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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This may be amazingly true...
Fortēs fortūna adjuvat.
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Hey, you're not the boss of me. So Ha Ha my code smells like dinosaur's farts.
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, ... packk 'yer things. 'Yer fired.
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I know exactly how you feel, same here!
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Ask rather how one will react to the news that he has been made a plural.
This fear of he, him, and his as the standard generic singular pronouns has gone far enough. Men, find your balls. Women, get over yourselves.
(This message is programming you in ways you cannot detect. Be afraid.)
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Yeah, but every time we find our balls ...
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Poorly written code that works, and keeps on working, triumphs over elegant code that hasn't been deployed or doesn't work.
Also, having the 'OK' button in the right spot means more to users than the architecture of your solution.
I've based my 12 year career on putting out crap code that works.
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Hey, you're the one with the pseudo name "Slacker"
p.s. Don't pick on the "senior" coders - I am very senior and take great pride in producing quality stuff.
p.s.s. Where's the wink-wink smiley? That emoticon was done with a ';'.
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The universe has provided these idiots to serve you: thanks to them, you will never be unemployed.
I do feel, however, that the universe should provide a type of "buy four, get one free" policy - i.e. after having cleaned up the mess that four of them have made, you should be allowed legally to murder the fifth one. It's only sanitary, after all...
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I transfer the blame on the clients who haphazardly request new features who contradict each other and are meant to be delivered yesterday.
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