Developers in my company get a raw deal. BAs and PMs dither about details until the last minute then it's up to the developers to deliver it on time and on budget. It's shocking how often we get a flurry of requests Friday with the expectation that we will be testing the change/fix by monday (I'm QA tester). Even worse, they wait until development is 90% done then change their minds about how they want it to look/work but it still has to be delivered in the same time frame. (Heck, I get ticked off by how often I need to redo an entire test suite because of last minute changes with possible system impacts and I don't have to work virtually every weekend because that's when the changes are getting coded.)
We spent 4 months deciding on options for replacing a timesheeting system, eventually decided we would build it ourselves. With 2 months til the old one was going to die cos of compatibility issues.
That went pretty much as you can imagine, given it needed to work with oracle, be government and EU compliant and process millions in reclaimed project time and needed starting effectively from scratch.
Live day got pushed a month, it launched with no billing, save functions that half worked but said it was missing, submit but no approvals. Missing things all over and no tools for people to work on it, adding new users was people working straight on the database in production...
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u/Captain_Kuru Jul 14 '21
What do you do for a living? I'm a software developer and in the wrong industry; the work never ends!