Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015)
by rietta on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @07:49PM
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But why was the policy implemented in the first place. Probably to counteract an earlier development error where managers insisted that every change was priority 1, hot fix now. So the process evolved to be resistant to that.
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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015)
by ryandrake on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:24PM
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Exactly. I've worked at places where "I'm the super senior manager, and I don't care about the process! Fix it now!" was acceptable, and at that point you might as well have no process. It inevitably turns into a train wreck.