Re:The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way'
by hinkley on Friday December 15, 2023 @01:49PM
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On the clock of course.
My last interaction with them, I remember they kept claiming the sky was falling (aka schedule slip) if we didn’t rework the library to do exactly the API they worked out before any line of code was written and with no input from the four other teams that needed to consume it.
This culminated in 2 of our leads sitting in a room with a giant table, in a meeting of what had to be ten people at least, for three hours one afternoon while we dictated pseudocode and sequence diagrams for their next three months’ of work (if you can describe a month of work in an hour, it’s really not as complex as people are making it out to be)
So we paid six or seven of them to listen while we did half of their job for them, with our two most expensive employees.
My last interaction with them, I remember they kept claiming the sky was falling (aka schedule slip) if we didn’t rework the library to do exactly the API they worked out before any line of code was written and with no input from the four other teams that needed to consume it.
This culminated in 2 of our leads sitting in a room with a giant table, in a meeting of what had to be ten people at least, for three hours one afternoon while we dictated pseudocode and sequence diagrams for their next three months’ of work (if you can describe a month of work in an hour, it’s really not as complex as people are making it out to be)
So we paid six or seven of them to listen while we did half of their job for them, with our two most expensive employees.