03-22-2018, 11:25 AM
I think there's always gonna be friction between business and technical groups in pretty much any company.
In my situation, I have very, very process locked development groups who don't have, or care to develop an understanding of why the work they are doing matters for the overall business. They create SLAs that are unnecessarily long, are trigger-happy with blackout periods and in general make more of an effort to reject a requested project than to just do the fucking work. It becomes a boy-who-cried-wolf situation if you're throwing up a scope or blackout period flag for every project. That's how you end up with irate, technically-illiterate product/business people demanding features and not caring about the technical limitations you're bringing up. It sounds an awful lot like the same excuse they heard last time, and when pushed hard enough the developer delivered what they wanted. So in their mind they just need to yell a little louder to get you to drop the act and do the work.
A decent part of my job, at least before we migrated to our new platform, was cutting through that bullshit and figuring out exactly what can be done and by when, and/or how to adapt around the legitimate technical limitations. I've developed a reputation as the ringer who knows how to get a project to market when everyone else says it's an impossible time frame.
In my situation, I have very, very process locked development groups who don't have, or care to develop an understanding of why the work they are doing matters for the overall business. They create SLAs that are unnecessarily long, are trigger-happy with blackout periods and in general make more of an effort to reject a requested project than to just do the fucking work. It becomes a boy-who-cried-wolf situation if you're throwing up a scope or blackout period flag for every project. That's how you end up with irate, technically-illiterate product/business people demanding features and not caring about the technical limitations you're bringing up. It sounds an awful lot like the same excuse they heard last time, and when pushed hard enough the developer delivered what they wanted. So in their mind they just need to yell a little louder to get you to drop the act and do the work.
A decent part of my job, at least before we migrated to our new platform, was cutting through that bullshit and figuring out exactly what can be done and by when, and/or how to adapt around the legitimate technical limitations. I've developed a reputation as the ringer who knows how to get a project to market when everyone else says it's an impossible time frame.
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