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  • jecxjo@midwest.socialEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    The last place i worked at they started pushing the same type of cringe. What made it worse was the PM/BA wasnt actually writing stories. One sprint I had 4 stories with just titles and “TBD” on the description. His boss was mad that my productivity was low when i couldnt do the work they couldn’t describe.

    • darkmarx@lemmy.world
      31·
      1 year ago

      I will admit that I have done that. I have created tasks, typically bugs, that have a title, maybe a screenshot, and a note that says contact me. It’s typically when I notice something wrong and can’t figure out an easy way to word it. Part of the problem is that I’m a visual person, so I like to show what I’m seeing. I don’t like doing it becuase I know people like to have details up front. It is something I’m working on. However, I would not hold my lack of communication against one of my devs.

      • jecxjo@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        We aren’t talking about a bug, new feature stories. No screen shots, no identifieres to get me closer to a solution.

        For example one of my stories had the following as the total amount of text for the entire ticket: “Add parser for new message type.”

        Add the parser where? What is the new message type? Is this for a test tool or the project itself? Unit test framework? In a library or in the project code? We were working on two protocols and one protocol had a high level and low level message structure so i literally had 3 possibilities.

        And when i asked my boss what the ticket was about i was told that i should do some investigation and fill in the ticket myself. Wtf?!? When i then told my productivity was wanting i started looking for a new job.

    • Korthrun@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Good job not doing a murder! I don’t know if I could keep my cool at whomever allowed “TBD” to get into an active sprint.

      How can you provide acceptable results if there is no acceptance criteria defined? Was “literally reads minds” on your job posting?!

      • jecxjo@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The problem was that my boss was a title hopper and needed to fill his old position and he did it with yes men who wouldn’t stand up for anything. Meant that these yes men were also not the greatest at doing the rest of the job either.

        They were expecting me to just do Hero Engineering by not objecting, put in more time and fill on the gap when theu couldn’t do their job. Was the first time in 20 years i ever was reprimanded, been praised at everything else I’ve done. So i knew at that point this was just a toxic place to work.