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Just curious, did you have any engineers/product owners telling you that you should probably not do this feature, especially not push so hard (doing stuff late
by adnanh 6y ago
Just curious, did you have any engineers/product owners telling you that you should probably not do this feature, especially not push so hard (doing stuff late on Friday that can easily wait for Monday, etc...) to get it out?
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoYeah, those guys got laid off early on the COVID-19 cost reductions as being 'troublemakers'.
- yjlim5 6y agoThis, I'm very curious to know. Did anybody speak up about it? That's what product discussion meetings are for, right?
- ponker 6y agoYeah, we don’t even do any kind of code deploy on Friday after 10am. Not even bug fixes unless they are for site reliability.
- capableweb 6y agoIt's one thing to do regular code deploys and there is no harm in doing it on fridays, if the code happens to be ready. If something goes bad, you rollback, which hopefully is automatic. But, pushing features out the door is different than just deploying, so seems this is what happened. Then it doesn't matter what day you release your unfinished feature, it's gonna cause bad times.
- gjs278 6y agothe site is offline - well we won’t fix it until monday
- travisjungroth 6y agoThe tree of possible causes here looks really bad. Either no one spoke up, or someone did. If no one spoke up because no one knew this would be a problem, it means the team is completely unqualified. If no one spoke up but they did know this would be a problem, then it means people are afraid to speak out (my money is on this one). If people did speak out, then the right people with the right concerns aren't getting listened to.
- atroche 6y agoI think it's very telling that Ammon never replied to this. I'm guessing it's because engineers did push back, and he overruled them.