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> If you spend all your time on them, people perceive your product as holding still I've always found this hilarious... we spend thousands on hiring developer
by WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
> If you spend all your time on them, people perceive your product as holding still
I've always found this hilarious... we spend thousands on hiring developers and one of the primary goals is to find a well rounded person who is okay doing maintenance tasks and ensuring proper code quality and knows how to write effective tests. A short time later, I come on to a project just for a status update and find the developers cutting tests and maintenance tasks at the orders of the PO who then complains that tickets are getting larger and larger.
- jeremyjh 7y agoDevs should not ever say the word "test" to a PM/PO. If the question is, "why isn't the feature ready?" the answer is "because the work took longer than I expected." If you say "because I've writing tests" you are sabotaging the team. Tests aren't any of the PO's business, they are just part of the software that supports the feature.
- Aeolun 7y agoThis is an ideal reality. If the PO is at your desk every day to ask why the thing isn’t done, most developers are eventually going to drop everything non-essential to the functioning just to get them out of their hair.