Monday, August 10, 2009

Truely Stupid Corporate Tricks #1

I live a corporate life from about 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM Monday - Friday... thought it would be time to share some truly stupid corporate tricks.

Trick #1.
Problem: Not enough resources to do QA for a software product....
Solution: Fire QA

Yes, friends, it is true. A rocket scientist at my office decided about a year ago that the resolution to the problem of not having enough QA resources available to QA your software product quickly was to fire the resource you had and "have the developers do their own QA". If you have worked in software development of any stripe, you know how ridiculous that is.

Fortunately, the pay off for my team was, we got a kick-ass QA resource... and for the other person's team, the "developers do their own QA". Unfortunately, the end users of the other team get to do the QA the developers don't do.

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