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I work in a billing team now. Haven't been for majority of my career, though. The article is spot on. It's the ideal 'how hard can it be?' joke project, excep
by baq 3y ago
I work in a billing team now. Haven't been for majority of my career, though.
The article is spot on.
It's the ideal 'how hard can it be?' joke project, except it's all true.
The list of examples is too long to count, but if you approach the problem incorrectly you're soon left with the question 'how much should the customer pay' and then 'why didn't we charge this amount but something else' and when this happens too often finance comes in and asks what did you do because the reports which run the company (including whether to lay off people or not) are not trustworthy.
- talkingtab 3y agoI do not disagree. Like many problems, the simple cases are okay, but it is what you don't know that can lead you down the wrong path. But this is true of almost everything I can think of in software products. Databases? OMG don't get me started. After some short amount of experience everyone will flinch if someone says "how hard can it be". The issue I have is that while an article that gives people a heads up of what lies ahead would be very useful and helpful this was not that. Instead it was framed as "don't do it". Just not my cup of tea.