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To be fair you could have gathered the requirements and proposed your solution, wait for the approvals and then start the coding work instead of working on the
by sumedh 4y ago
To be fair you could have gathered the requirements and proposed your solution, wait for the approvals and then start the coding work instead of working on the solution.
- oblio 4y agoI did try all of that, was basically told no, use the official solution, and meanwhile deploy hundreds of applications manually on Linux servers, using shell commands. And for the official solution, I kid you not, they had me fill in a huge Excel spreadsheet, print it, have my manager sign it, then attach the PDF scan to another Excel I was supposed to email. And that was for a review by the architects team. One step out of tens of super similar steps (including the print and scan part). I presented my project as a small, "skunkworks project", to try to get approval on the side of the main solution, to have some automation so I wouldn't go crazy. If they were better organized and frankly less political, I would have tried to help them more. But at every step the impression was that they didn't want me there, I was a troublemaker...