A shocker of a week
Saturday March 15, 2008

Ohmigosh, I had the most shocking week this week at work. It started OK – just busy – but by Friday I was about ready to explode.

We have this client… who has to be the most unlucky client in the world, because anything that can go wrong in a project has gone wrong in his project.

A lot of the problems have had things to do with overloading the development and the quality control teams, and some of the problems have been due to the complex nature of the project, but a lot of the problems I would say have also been due to a lack of project management internally.

But you try telling the upper echelons in the company that.

So myself and another developer got totally hammered by the managing director last week, and we are due for another thrashing in the coming week.

And to top that off, we were at work until 8pm on a Friday night. How much does that suck?

What pisses me off the most though, is that the managers don’t reprimand the people that made the mistake, they just go full out with the blame, misdirect it (in this case it’s me as the Team Lead, and the other guy as the Lead Dev) and in the end the person that made the mistake doesn’t know what they did and you have a larger part of the team bitter about it.

Anyhoo… it’s time to disconnect from work now…

I’m off to study (ironically the subject for today is project team management) and then possibly go for a run (maybe later in the afternoon when it’s not so hot).

Take care!