Comments on: Programmers Are People Too http://weblog.probablynot.com/2008/06/23/programmers-are-people-too/ -emptying my brain onto the internet since 1998... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:59:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jason http://weblog.probablynot.com/2008/06/23/programmers-are-people-too/#comment-65811 jason Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:48:28 +0000 http://weblog.probablynot.com/?p=951#comment-65811 Thanks for that link. Nice read. :) Thanks for that link. Nice read. :)

]]> By: Michael http://weblog.probablynot.com/2008/06/23/programmers-are-people-too/#comment-65782 Michael Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:02:13 +0000 http://weblog.probablynot.com/?p=951#comment-65782 Let's not forget that the report, the bug fixes and the new field on screen b are still part of the programmers job, too. The impatient suits that all to often set unreasonable goals and unrealistic time tables can't (well, can, but really shouldn't) expect said programmer to put aside all other projects and work only on the big one. Pretty soon you have a programmer with 100 tasks in his backlog and a new app still being worked on. Getting angry with an employee for doing their job... sounds like corporate exec's to me. If you didn't see <a href="http://brucefwebster.com/2008/06/16/anatomy-of-a-runaway-it-project/" rel="nofollow">Anatomy of a Runaway IT Project</a> last week, I think you'll enjoy it. Let’s not forget that the report, the bug fixes and the new field on screen b are still part of the programmers job, too. The impatient suits that all to often set unreasonable goals and unrealistic time tables can’t (well, can, but really shouldn’t) expect said programmer to put aside all other projects and work only on the big one. Pretty soon you have a programmer with 100 tasks in his backlog and a new app still being worked on. Getting angry with an employee for doing their job… sounds like corporate exec’s to me.

If you didn’t see Anatomy of a Runaway IT Project last week, I think you’ll enjoy it.

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