John Beck wrote:
How about when you're out in MPK in the near future, I introduce
you to several members of the pkg team? Then you can listen to them
explain the work that they're doing, and how performance work is planned,
but for later in the dev cycle.
How about, rather than spending a whole lot of time "explaining" to one
person, you, and hopefully the other engineers, spend the same amount of
time PUBLISHING this information somewhere.
IPS is a major project. Seems like it would beneficial to have public
documentation, with timelines, suitable to "a major project".
(Not to mention perhaps an actual project manager getting involved here)
> We're
all on the same team, and are (or should be) working towards the same
goal, which is a better experience for our customers.
> -- John
>
> frequent mediator of disputes between cranky engineers who talk better
> than they listen
Wonderful!
So John, your customers are asking for, among other things public commitment
to, "yes, this sort of thing (performance) is important to us, and we are
going to work on it starting approximately [this date]"
I will put in an advanced reply that if the answer is "we dont know when
we'll get around to it", that you are not serving your customers well, and
you should look into adjusting your priorities to serving your customers better.
As someone has already pointed out, the excuses of [oh its only dev, we dont
have to pay attention to that stuff], is contradicted by the fact that
multiple other projects, both internal, and EXTERNAL, to [the company
formerly known as sun], have been mandated to treat IPS as production right
now. Your are selling SUPPORT CONTRACTS that cover it, for one thing.
So it's past time to stop calling it "only in development", and start
treating it appropriately.
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