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Twenty years ago I was in Japan, as an onsite tester while we tried out this new thing called XP. The project wasn't going smoothly because no one had told our
by bklaasen 4y ago
Twenty years ago I was in Japan, as an onsite tester while we tried out this new thing called XP. The project wasn't going smoothly because no one had told our Japanese clients we were building the solution iteratively, with their input.
At one stage, we all received an email, in Japanese, from the project stakeholder. I put it through machine translation, which back then was pretty raw. The English text was largely gobbledygook, except for one sentence, still branded in my brain: "It becomes the alligator."
Summed up the project perfectly.
- dr_orpheus 4y agoWell putting "It becomes the alligator" through the 10 languages (don't know if any were actually Japanese) I got "Occurs with this technician" which seems like something that you could put in any project input. I really wish there was a history function with a translation back to English at each stage. I would be curious to see if you could identify at what language change "Alligator" became "Technician"