Product Owner: “How many more people is it going to take to fix the road?”
Dev Team: "Well, there’s a ticket in the backlog to put out the underground fire. It’s been in the backlog for five years, and it’s a blocker for this “Fix Road” ticket.
Product Owner: “…so, can we fix the road first and then go back and put out the fire a little bit at a time as capacity allows over the next few sprints?”
Dev Team: “…”
The Road
This is one reason I’m still paying my monthly Microsoft dues. I’m an advanced [I guess] Excel user and none of the other spreadsheet programs out there can do everything Excel can do. At least not easily.
Some guy from the Super Bowl 38 halftime show.
Reviewing large PR’s is hard. Breaking apart large PR’s that are all related changes into smaller PR’s is also hard.
If I submit a big one, I usually leave notes in the description explaining where the “core” changes are and what they are trying to accomplish. The goal being to give the reviewers a good starting point.
I also like to unit test the shit out of my code which helps a lot. The main issue there is getting management to embrace unit tests. Unit tests often double the effort up front but save tons of time in the long run. We’re going to spend the time one way or the other. Better to do it up front when it’s “cheaper” because charging it to the tech debt credit card racks up lots of expensive interest.
What happens when the stupid person is in charge of hiring?
Ah, I see you’ve met the product owner.
A Mose is a Mose.
A rose is a rose.
A toes is a toes.
Whoop-dee-doo-dee-doo-doo!
“Can we get a show show of hands just to confirm we’re ready to move forward?”
Me Everyone, who wasn’t listening and doesn’t have a clue what they were just talking about: ✋
I had a client years ago who was in his late 80’s. He grew up on a farm in Indiana and I remember him telling me a story about threshing grain. He was just a kid in the 1920’s, shoveling coal into the firebox on a big Case steam engine that they took from farm to farm. He said they would try to stay near a creek whenever they could so they had a water source for the engine. It was hard, hot work. He said there was a “big German fella” who worked on their crew who never drank anything but hot black coffee, something which fascinated him as kid.
It was an interesting story to listen to. Such a mundane activity but the fact that it’s no longer a thing and only existed in the memory of someone who remembered doing it made it kind of fascinating
I have a recording of interviews I did with all my living grandparents for a school project when I was a kid. One thing that stood out was the level of abject poverty they experienced. They were teenagers during the great depression and it definitely had a major impact on all of them.
No, the real one is standing up.
At a former job, there was one – and only one – lady in customer service who would actually reboot and do all the basic troubleshooting steps before calling IT. If we heard from her, we knew something was legitimately broken. Oddly enough, I’m married to her now. Best decision I ever made.
Shoot it?
Don’t give the rednecks any ideas.
A flea in a box, inside of another box that you’ve mailed to yourself?
I’m a [primarily] C# turned JavaScript dev. I miss C#.
I believe we call that a “fast follow”.
I laugh a little every time see a Dude Wipes billboard. What sucker is out there buying baby wipes for men?
I keep a suit for more formal occasions, like funerals. Oddly enough, the level of formality in funeral attire varies a lot depending on what region of the US you’re in.