It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code

Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by Dove on Thursday May 17, 2012 @06:34PM (#3989482)

If you want a change request processed quickly, you should get someone in upper management to help you herd it through the system. Literally, take your VIP with you, and walk up to the desk of each admin in turn. Say, "Don't wait for Tuesday's meeting--approve this right now." And then walk to the next admin and do it again. And then walk to the test guys and say, "Drop everything and test this now." And then gather up the six essential stakeholders for the CCB meeting and say, "Impromptu CCB meeting, right now in the hallway instead of next month. Approve this."

I've gotten software changes that usually take two months to trickle through the system through in a day. You have to spend all day doing it, though, and so does your VIP.

But if it's really that important . . .

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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by smackfu on Thursday May 17, 2012 @09:19PM (#3989957)

The tricky bit is that if there is a bug in the change, the VIP might suddenly be busy with other work.

And as you said, a smart VIP is there in the room, suggesting things get done. Explicitly not writing things down in emails.

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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by ojbyrne on Thursday May 17, 2012 @08:28PM (#3989799)

That works once. Then the next time you go to each desk, the person there has already checked with their boss, and says "my boss says you need to go through the correct channels and if you don't like it, you need to talk to him."

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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by Dove on Thursday May 17, 2012 @09:16PM (#3989947)

That's why you have a VIP with you. If he's not her boss's boss, the whole thing is a lot less likely to work.

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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by cheatercheater on Saturday May 19, 2012 @06:40AM (#3995635)

Wishful thinking. Each of those people has a thousand other things to do than to hold your hand all day long. Only works for things that are super-duper-important.

Additionally.. Going to "tell" on your buddies all the time and holding "the grownups" over them is terrible whinery. Everyone on the playground hates kids who do that.

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