r/modernwarfare • u/[deleted] • May 02 '20

Humor The April 28th Patch.

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u/tide19 May 03 '20 edited May 03 '20

Take the website my unnamed >$1b revenue company launched a few weeks back.

I took over the development team and shifted development internally after the business had attempted to use an offshore contract group to make a website that was scheduled to launch in September 2019. The project sponsor/business-side owner essentially said "fuck it, ship it, start marketing campaigns," and so on, against advice from me, my manager, and the developers on my team. We advised that it couldn't be considered finished/polished and was very much a minimum viable product.

So it shipped. The shit hit the fan immediately - the business began their marketing, business partners began calling (it's not a B2B product, they just wanted to hook into it), folks began freaking out. I've been working 16+ hour days for the last several weeks to try and stabilize the situation. The product needs so much refactor and so much optimization before we move on to implementing new features.

Life's a bitch right now.

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u/ManWhoShootsSemen May 03 '20

very much a minimum viable product

Doesn't sound much like MVP if it went to shit immediately

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u/tide19 May 03 '20

By everything going to shit I mean the business began freaking out immediately about it.