What the freak was I thinking on April 02!!!
First time in 11 years am finding myself working 100+ hours a week. Not a moment to sit back and think what went wrong. A client who escalates even QA build breaks to their CIO is not helping either.
No new lessons on a quick reflection…
- The 9-lady one month myth is really a myth. Don’t try
- Integrating with 5 systems and 53 services in god-knows-how-many technologies need at least couple of weeks of integration time
- A team who hasn’t worked together before needs at least a month to gel. Don’t attempt a 12-week dev cycle with such a team
Well, there is one new lesson… every time you refuse to learn, it gets harder the next time.
And a principle that need to be reinforced – you’ve every right to put yourself through this shit, but not 40 other people who were not part of that decision.
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Are you sure it wasn’t the 1st?
it’s like a couple of firsts together