Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Critical Thinking in the corporate world, by the top brA55es

We get a 22 page document on how to fill out a defect report in Jira. This would not be so bad if it was 22 pages of how to describe and detail defects in a coherent way. It was instead 22 pages of work-flow, which is entirely driven by Jira anyway, and therefore does not need documentation.
Instead it was describing the use of 3 fields in order to allow management to do apples-to-apples comparisons of bugs. Only an MBA (Massively Bad Advice) could come up with something so incredibly asinine. Bugs, like real estate are unique. A bug in one application is not the same as a bug in another application.
What they mean is that they want a way to determine which bugs they want to get rid of, and which ones they want to keep. This means that by definition defective software is acceptable. Which means that at my employer, quality is not a primary concern.
Yes folks, MBA's think defective software is acceptable to deliver to the customer.
Is there any wonder why I call being made a manager, a demotion.......