when you say critical bug....
turns out that my idea of critical and manglements idea of critical are 2 different things.
Monkey1 "this is a critical bug, we must fix it in this release. How long will it take?"
whippingboy1 "it will take Daisy a few hours and me a day and then whippingboy2 will have to test it so add another day"
- err, guys? has anyone checked that we have the information to do this? anyone ask the customer for their input?
thought not.
It can be as critical as you like but if we don't have the right information to add it in to the product then it can go in. It's not rocket science, no really it's not. We take a certain sort of information and turn it into code. If we don't have the information in the first place we can't turn it into code.
and another thing, this doesn't affect functionality so therefore it's not critical.
oh never mind.
I had such a nice holiday and yet it seems so long ago now....
Monkey1 "this is a critical bug, we must fix it in this release. How long will it take?"
whippingboy1 "it will take Daisy a few hours and me a day and then whippingboy2 will have to test it so add another day"
- err, guys? has anyone checked that we have the information to do this? anyone ask the customer for their input?
thought not.
It can be as critical as you like but if we don't have the right information to add it in to the product then it can go in. It's not rocket science, no really it's not. We take a certain sort of information and turn it into code. If we don't have the information in the first place we can't turn it into code.
and another thing, this doesn't affect functionality so therefore it's not critical.
oh never mind.
I had such a nice holiday and yet it seems so long ago now....
posted by Daisy Twoshoes at 5:01 PM
1 Comments:
Daisy, I'm getting worried for you. These jobs seem to be designed to stress. Take five minutes, shut your eyes and picture yourself back on holiday by the pool. Smile, breathe slowly and deeply and just enjoy. I can guarantee that when you open your eyes again, the world will still be there, the headless chickens will still be running around in circles clucking furiously at each other (don't ask me how they cluck without a head!!) and the project will still be where it was five minutes ago. Neligible impact on project time line! Only difference is, you will get 5 minutes of bliss to remind you why you're bothering in the first place and to tide you over the river of poo till packing up time. :o)
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