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Now someone please explain to my boss that "you don't listen" and "can you just do your job properly", when he doesn't lay out the correct requirements and expe

• wruza 7y ago
  If that helps, I usually draw a big picture, fill in all the details and show where inconsistencies, gaps and future landmines are. Then come up with few detailed suggestions, workarounds and/or hypothesis on these, all easy to answer with yes/no. Usually that discovers an entire layer of problems in the original problem statement and the cycle repeats. Sometimes though they fail to even yes/no and just repeat what was said before. A little patience and time is required to bring that in their mind clearly. I think an advice could be, don’t bring emotions to the table and try to solve this bigger task of getting shit done in machine+human environment rather than locking yourself in a strict requirements bunker. Connecting ideas to reality can already be incredibly hard and more so impossible without your help.