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Aug. 3rd, 2005 02:28 pmOK, who rolled the Golden Code Snippet into the crowd of my developers today? I feel as if there's no longer any question about it, i work in an Erisian software development environment.
Monday was bad— our chief technical director sat in our planning meeting and promised that we'd deliver more things than we already were going to in the release for which code-complete is ostensibly this Friday. Never mind that the core functionality is only, oh, 85% there; he's dropping in extra features which weren't even on the radar.
No, gothdamnit. Just no. Put stuff on the radar for a subsequent release, but unless you're sitting down and coding stuff, don't be making promises for other people. None of the dev team took him seriously— they'll be scrambling to complete the last bit of things which are must-haves for this release.
I have two words: Occam's Razor. Simplicity first. Methodological reductionism, even. Get the basics down, and work from there.
So, that was Monday. Figuring i lost Monday afternoon and Tuesday out sick, there were things i'd figured i'd get knocked out in testing today. Serves me right. Today, i have two separate blocking issues, which are precluding me from really testing much of anything which isn't already in a known-good state (and therefore not needing the attention).
This is all a plot to make me go bat-shit insane, right?
Monday was bad— our chief technical director sat in our planning meeting and promised that we'd deliver more things than we already were going to in the release for which code-complete is ostensibly this Friday. Never mind that the core functionality is only, oh, 85% there; he's dropping in extra features which weren't even on the radar.
No, gothdamnit. Just no. Put stuff on the radar for a subsequent release, but unless you're sitting down and coding stuff, don't be making promises for other people. None of the dev team took him seriously— they'll be scrambling to complete the last bit of things which are must-haves for this release.
I have two words: Occam's Razor. Simplicity first. Methodological reductionism, even. Get the basics down, and work from there.
So, that was Monday. Figuring i lost Monday afternoon and Tuesday out sick, there were things i'd figured i'd get knocked out in testing today. Serves me right. Today, i have two separate blocking issues, which are precluding me from really testing much of anything which isn't already in a known-good state (and therefore not needing the attention).
This is all a plot to make me go bat-shit insane, right?
