Re:How to communicate (more) effectively as a developer
by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Friday October 28, 2022 @12:40PM
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I just got out of a conversation where surprise was expressed that I didn't know, and prepare, for an upcoming release that was obviously coming.
Well the answer is that no one told me that they were even thinking about releasing. The last I heard we were waiting on the vendor.
Apparently I should have known it was coming and had prepared production servers for it so the roughly week and a half given magically became enough.
What's worse is that technically speaking it can be easily done in that time, it's a people problem. They could technically put pressure where it needs to be, but will they? All signs point to no.
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So while I understand putting responsibility for communication onto the developer, there's a responsibility for the others as well and at some point it's just flat not the developers problem.
Well the answer is that no one told me that they were even thinking about releasing. The last I heard we were waiting on the vendor.
Apparently I should have known it was coming and had prepared production servers for it so the roughly week and a half given magically became enough.
What's worse is that technically speaking it can be easily done in that time, it's a people problem. They could technically put pressure where it needs to be, but will they? All signs point to no.
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So while I understand putting responsibility for communication onto the developer, there's a responsibility for the others as well and at some point it's just flat not the developers problem.