The manager left out the part where he tells Bob that he's "lucky" to be on a team which doesn't have a lot of problems.
I actually had a manager once tell me that not only was I lucky to be in groups that had very few problems (I was moved around a lot), but that even in the groups that historically did have lots of problems, I "just happened" to join them during a lull.
The "lull" was the three month period I was assigned to the group. For the 18 months prior to my joining, the group was averaging 70 BRs (bug reports) a month. They were averaging only 28 during the three months I was there. And I after I left, within three months, they were averaging 62 BRs a month again.
This was actually framed as an indicator that unlike my peers, I wasn't getting enough experience, because I wasn't being challenged technically like they were.
My response that was that was like saying firemen who aren't arsonists don't get as much experiences as their peers who keep setting fires was not appreciated.
Like Cassandra of Greek myth, my prophecies were always ignored, and it's only in the project autopsy that the auditors discover that I'd predicted/anticipated/warned of the impending disaster, only to be told I was imagining things, a worrywart, "overly dramatic", or the like.
Management told me "don't be so negative all the time", so I wasn't. I just documented my concerns, and left it at that.
The management responses to the auditors were always hilarious, at least to me, as management tried to say that they couldn't possibly have anticipated something that they'd been directly warned about.
The manager left out the part where he tells Bob that he's "lucky" to be on a team which doesn't have a lot of problems.
I actually had a manager once tell me that not only was I lucky to be in groups that had very few problems (I was moved around a lot), but that even in the groups that historically did have lots of problems, I "just happened" to join them during a lull.
The "lull" was the three month period I was assigned to the group. For the 18 months prior to my joining, the group was averaging 70 BRs (bug reports) a month. They were averaging only 28 during the three months I was there. And I after I left, within three months, they were averaging 62 BRs a month again.
This was actually framed as an indicator that unlike my peers, I wasn't getting enough experience, because I wasn't being challenged technically like they were.
My response that was that was like saying firemen who aren't arsonists don't get as much experiences as their peers who keep setting fires was not appreciated.
Be happy you've been listen when you try to prevent mistakes before having bugs...
So many time I said something like "if we do that, we're going to run into a wall in production".
And so, as a complete misfortune of course, the wall raised in production... and we had to make corrections urgently.
After 2/3 walls, PM begins to listen to theses warnings.
The hard way to learn or to be teached :D
Oh, I get listened to. Post facto.
Like Cassandra of Greek myth, my prophecies were always ignored, and it's only in the project autopsy that the auditors discover that I'd predicted/anticipated/warned of the impending disaster, only to be told I was imagining things, a worrywart, "overly dramatic", or the like.
Management told me "don't be so negative all the time", so I wasn't. I just documented my concerns, and left it at that.
The management responses to the auditors were always hilarious, at least to me, as management tried to say that they couldn't possibly have anticipated something that they'd been directly warned about.
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Raise a JIRA!!!
Even I am smart enough to put stuff on my personal todo list and check it off retroactively, Bob. 🙄 Get with the program. You are what you measure! 😏