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Huh. On three separate jobs (small tasks, few hours to couple of days) I was told, after asking some questions, "stop bugging me and just write the damn thing".
by mdpopescu 6y ago
Huh. On three separate jobs (small tasks, few hours to couple of days) I was told, after asking some questions, "stop bugging me and just write the damn thing".
I would probably not ask any questions on any new task of that sort and just randomly pick something. To be honest, that might not even be intrinsically bad - the client can always change their mind even if I write exactly what they wanted, so "write something and show it to me" is probably a good idea.
- andybak 6y agoYeah. We would have accepted that. We did explicity say several times "ask questions. we're here". Our desired outcomes were (in order of preference: 1. Ask and figure out the task was easier than it might have seemed 2. Don't ask but make the right judgement call 3. Don't ask and overcomplicate things because you've assumed the worst. (For example - the task could have been done with no UI and just a CLI interface. We never said it needed any user facing elements. We wanted to see if they jumped to conclusions. So far everyone has assumed it needed a web UI)