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Many companies favor short-term win or Money over Technicality because there aren't many people who have the skill to put the numbers on Excel spreadsheet the a

Many companies favor short-term win or Money over Technicality because there aren't many people who have the skill to put the numbers on Excel spreadsheet the amount of money the company can save had we done things "Right" at the first time during the meeting between Business and Tech team (Product Manager, CEO vs Team Lead/Dev Manager). Basically it comes down to quantifying these quality works over developing new features. I had the pleasure to work in a very small tight-knit team where you have to have the bulldog to bark at people when they're slowing down their defense (i.e.: writing unit-tests, making sure build script is up to date). Results: on-time, within-budget, 1 Saturday, 1 Statutory holiday, 2 days OT until 10.30PM (all re-imburse afterwards) for a rather ambitious project to be shipped in 6 months from zero to live in 2 months afterwards. Oh, and we have 1 performance bug after the release (easy one to solve) and 1 requirement bug 3 months after release. The rest (been live for about a year) was as smooth as the baby skin. We rotate the BB phone (on-call) but we never had it buzzed. Our saving graces were: 0) Management Support 1) Continuous Integration 2) Unit-Testing We use these unit-tests as REPL mostly, so we don't have to re-compile and re-deploy the _whole_ app to GlassFish.

spuz 14y ago
We practice 1 and 2 but not with the same smooth as baby skin releases. Could you explain what you mean by 0 and how it helps you?
- edwinnathaniel 14y ago
  Basically the people above the developers trust our judgment to work on these non-feature tasks: fixing build script (we use Maven but when it first setup, it didn't handle deployment to multi-environment that well), improving the component (we were newly created team, thus the reference of bulldog that bark) by either re-writing it or adding more unit-tests. The management almost never questioned us except one or two situations.

spuz 14y ago

We practice 1 and 2 but not with the same smooth as baby skin releases. Could you explain what you mean by 0 and how it helps you?

edwinnathaniel 14y ago
Basically the people above the developers trust our judgment to work on these non-feature tasks: fixing build script (we use Maven but when it first setup, it didn't handle deployment to multi-environment that well), improving the component (we were newly created team, thus the reference of bulldog that bark) by either re-writing it or adding more unit-tests. The management almost never questioned us except one or two situations.