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IBM does six hours of meetings, two hours of CRUD, and then four more hours in the evening fixing a problem the offshore dev team delivered without testing.
by pythonistic 11y ago
IBM does six hours of meetings, two hours of CRUD, and then four more hours in the evening fixing a problem the offshore dev team delivered without testing.
- S4M 11y agoAnd at the same time they managed to ship Watson.
- slig 11y agoThe initial team was less than 15 people. > "During 2007, the IBM team was given three to five years and a staff of 15 people to solve the problems" [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer)#cite_note-nytmag-11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer)#cite_note-ny...
- fapjacks 11y agoRight! This stabs at the heart of the issue, which is that some engineers gets to play the cool games (in fact very few), while most engineers are answering support tickets or putting out on-call fires. And this is no different than anything else, it's all about who you know.
- alexashka 11y agoRegardless of truth - this made me laugh out loud :D