Re:Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
by anonymars on Friday August 29, 2025 @07:41PM
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Thousand-yard stare flashback: "Why is this taking months to make this work? John and James built us the first version in 2 weeks"
Re:Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
by anonymars on Saturday August 30, 2025 @08:41AM
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Love it
Having the house fall on Buster was <chef's kiss>: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FN2SKWSOdGM
Re:Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
by hinkley on Saturday August 30, 2025 @06:07PM
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It’s been a long time since I worked with people whose previous gig was turning trumped up Excel spreadsheets into real applications two years past the Last Responsible Moment. It’s kind of up there with diabetics not going to the doctor until they’re about to lose a foot. You’ve admitted you have a problem long after we can help you thrive. Now we are just trying to minimize loss of function.
Re:Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
by hinkley on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:53PM
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The worst case of this I ran into, the “maintenance” team discovered some of the interactions were demo stubs. Nothing actually happened except the test data looked like the state transition worked.
Those are the worst because you don’t have done criteria you can reasonably write down. It’s whenever QA stops finding fakes in the code, plus a couple months for stragglers you might have missed.
Then the executives would be stunned that it was done so quickly. The prototype team would pass it off to another team and then move on to the next prototype.
The team that took over would open the project and discover that it was really a proof of concept, not a working site. They wouldn't include basic things like security, validation, error messages, or any of the hundred things that a real working product requires before you can put it online.
So the team that now owned it would often have to restart entirely, building it within the structures used by the rest of our products. The executives would be angry because they saw it "work" with their own eyes and thought the deployment team was just complicating things.