it's not a rerun, it's just that my life is predictable

[rone]

I was going to write something, but i wrote it long ago, so now you know that it's happening again.

Comments

[arian1.livejournal.com]

Wow. You are in hell. Who did you piss off?

[catbear.livejournal.com]

Oh Jesus, and Carlos Nakai is supposed to help? That guy sets my nerves jangling like a three day espresso kegger.

[rbradakis.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can reuse all of your old arguments and discussions? Do you have them in writing, or can you get them printed on flashcards to hold up in meetings?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

My role back then was much more minor, so i didn't have much input. The problem now is that the move starts in five weeks but we're still having discussions we should've had two or three months ago. Predictably, there is excess effort in some areas and corner-cutting in others.

[hwrnmnbsol.livejournal.com]

I am sorry. Make sure you have enough cooling.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

We've already run into that obstacle, alas.

That big project

[notr.livejournal.com]

that I got put on when I started this new job two summers ago? That I reviewed the design for with the process team last February, and finished coding in March and testing in April? And then in the summer when we reviewed the education package with the process team they all said, "What? It can't possibly work like that. How would we ever know to fill in all that data? Oh and BTW we didn't bother to tell you sometimes the people closing the problems are just administrators who weren't involved in writing the fixes, so this reminder panel we asked for when they start the fix isn't enough and they really need to be able to save all the details right then that you're not asking for until they go to close the problem"?

After a complete redesign and several meetings of not getting through presenting it because people insisted on reworking the first parts before seeing the rest, we finally got the revised requirements from them in December. I'm rewriting the whole thing basically from scratch this week.

And guess what. The project leader just came into my office to tell me the main guy who had the requirement in the first place is on vacation for the entire month, so we won't even get a review of the new education package until the week after we had scheduled to have the new version tested and in production.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You win, man.

The best part

[notr.livejournal.com]

is that this is STILL a great group to work with. The second best part is that the redesigned app is about a dozen times simpler than the first time around, so the hardest part of rewriting it is figuring out how to excise the old, complicated code.

Re: The best part

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

This is the horror of all code!!!

They should start with the redesign meetings foist, and then do all the useless stuff...