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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023
  • So often it’s patience from stakeholders to allow for time to actually design and build the things, or willingness to admit the actual cost, or an impossible grand vision with an unqualified/understaffed team, and of course reprioritizing constantly as if it’s easy to resume later without paying ramp up.

    Don’t get me started on the constant detailed status reports…

  • “Are you don’t yet? Why aren’t you done yet? Help me update infinite plans that will be outdated in a week. Also, I just promised a bunch of stuff… all that stuff we already promised, I think you can do that faster.”

    When I was a dev, I once had a PM with no technical skills that decided he would “learn to program to help catch us up”… He did not succeed.