Pattern Recognition
- project scoped by overzealous sales person
- project assigned to inexperienced developer
- developer spins wheels and feels bad for not “getting it”
- other developer steps in to help
- realizes problem at hand is not simple in the least
- other developer asks for help from another developer
- head-banging ensues
- nights spent working on sinking ship project desperately trying to find an answer
- post on stackoverflow.com and get smacked for “not trying hard enough”
- vacation ruined
- project way over budget
- many features remain undeveloped
- self doubt
- anger
- feel like a failure yet hang on to thread of knowing that it ain’t exactly all my fault
- rinse and repeat
sales people have no place in the scoping of projects. no place.