Some days, I almost feel like an important part in software development.
Other days, I feel like I'm a scheduler.
Then things like this happen, all over email:
Them: There's a BUG on PROD that only we have found!
Me: Yep. Software has bugs. Let's bring it into the next sprint.
Them: NO WAY. Let's push the solution now now now to prod.
Me: Um. No.If there's already a developed solution for it, then we can bring it into the Sprint, but only with a commit from the test team. If it doesn't require testing, then we can bring it into The Sprint and mark it as done. Under no circumstances are we pushing untested code to Prod.
Testing Manager: Yep. We've got the bandwidth to test it. Please pull it into the sprint, and mark it for the release that's after that.
Me: Done. We'll negotiate at standup exactly who is going to test.
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I guess I call that one a win?
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Being a leader involves a kind of surprising amount of teaching people not to do unwise things. And scheduling... so much herding cats and scheduling. >_<
ReplyDeleteSo many ways to express the same principle: When planning to get out of a deep hole, step one is “stop digging.”
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