knickknackz

The closer we get to ship day, the higher the tensions rise between developers, testers, and program managers (PMs). Apparently our developer philosophy is a little looser with respect to how dangerous last minute changes can be.

I’m sure our customers would understand that we intended for them to have a wonderful experience.

Sometimes you’re reminded why certain people aren’t suited to be the face we present to the customer. 

I was one of the 2 girls playing soccer in our team Soccer “Olympic” game.  For a little while I guarded the guy that the other girl usually guards. I think they have a little bit of a friendly rivalry going.

And it’s not that this guy is insensitive or doesn’t care about the product. It’s that he doesn’t want to change things close to a release date (and introduce regressions) and he doesn’t want to encourage “feature creep” (continually adding new functionality - think, ‘oh yeah, we should do that, too!’).  It just seems callous when you only see the surface speak.

Sometimes I’m amazed at how little original dialogue I add to these strips. 

So I have this habit of showing up on time to meetings, but the company culture is generally a bit more relaxed about when to show up to meetings. I’m told it’s getting better.