Wood-chipper?
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What I like about it is that it’s difficult to read it without asking “which one am I”? And that makes it, I think, a subversive tool for infecting a team with good software culture. It invites people at all levels of the software development process to reflect on how they could better serve their team.
That the cards for each category read somewhat like a Pokemon card is a good thing in my opinion. It invites an attitude of self-deprecating humor, while blunting the use of the tool as a +3 Magic Weapon of Software Development Management. The principle value, I think, is that it is an artifact of +1 Self Reflection, which is never a bad thing in a software development team.
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More specifically, this happens all the time on boingboing. Can a ‘root cause analysis’ be performed?
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More specifically, this happens all the time on boingboing. Can a ‘root cause analysis’ be performed?
Yes please!! This happens disturbingly often. There are two problems.
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This is reporting on somebody else’s reporting on something interesting. Why the intermediate step? Provide a credit to the curator if you must, but at least give us a direct link. It’s not just that it smells of laziness; it’s that it smells of corruption. One can’t help wondering whether you are being paid to direct traffic from your site to the intermediate site. Indirect linking serves no legitimate purpose that I can think of. And yet it happens on this site again and again and again and again.
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the link is broken. Again. In one of several different ways that you’ve found to break links in this column. In this case, you link to a live feed in which the item of interest has scrolled into oblivion. Which happens a lot.
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I’m not sure whether complaining about lack of hyperlink means we should classify you as 'the professor’s(if we take hyperlinks to be fundamental to web UI design) or ‘the alarmist’.
Unlike either of the above types, I provided the link after complaining about its absence. I like to leave the world a better place after drawing attention to myself.
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Legacy maintainer here. Not sure why thats bad.
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I worked in a 60000 person company with offices in 10 time zones. While other people were flailing around with email and written specs I would just call people on the telephone. You need your voice to make the personal connection which is what’s required to work around organizational incompetence. Because, God knows, the procedures are never going to get anything done.
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None of this would have happened if boing boing had used my favorite tool to maintain their content, and adapted all their processes, and hiring practices to suit.
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My mind drew the Pokemon analogy too. I began asking myself how these cards can be taken to the level of a playable game. It would be a great teaching tool for project teams to play.
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First half of that seems strangely familiar …
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In my previous and current jobs, I have not had a telephone on my desk. In the current job we use slack for immediate communications. Its better in some ways because you do get a record of all conversations.
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I think people just can’t read anymore. Everyone at my organization has a college degree, I’m sure most of them have more advanced degrees or have them from more prestigious institutions than me. We spend all day slagging our stupid customers who are incapable of following the most simple instructions. But if I send an email longer that 127 characters I might as well write it on paper and pin it to the temple.
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Thank you.
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Oh and here is another one to add to the QA section: its a tester who finds bugs and doesn’t document them. Then when a developer is wandering past, reproduces the bug with a few clicks, proclaiming that the product is rubbish, based on their evidence.
But never shows anybody what those clicks are. The person I am thinking of probably satisfies several other QA categories, but this was a behavior I didn’t see listed.
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I don’t know how QA ranks in your organization, but I’d generally title that one “Unemployed”.
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The Chartmaker: annoyingly pigeonholes everybody into one of several trite stereotypes, ignoring that we’re all individuals with different attributes.
This might by a hybrid of “The Random Clicker” and “The Flippant”. On my road-map is a to allow for community submissions, as there seem to be many people that want to extend this taxonomy.
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