I have spent the last two weeks wrestling with this mostly broken piece of software. Once I get it finally working with the 15 steps I need to do to get it going…the process changes. And not by a little. By a whole fucking lot. By the time I get the last build going (last night’s build), by fucking NOON it’s different. I have spent every morning asking “why does this part not work?” and getting “oh, pick up the new build and do all this shit that I never documented and no one in their right mind would think to do to get it working.” from the developers. It’s not really their fault. Not totally. But this severe lack of documentation sucks. Isn’t this why we have a Wiki for the project? <insert loud peals of laughter> I cannot read your goddamn mind. Tell me how I’m supposed to get this shit working so I can stay productive which is the whole goddamn point of Agile.

And before you say it, no, we’re not doing Agile right. Not yet. They’re still learning. It takes time. They still think it’s perfectly reasonable to drop code for testing MINUTES before an iteration review. We had 6 carry over stories from the last iteration. SIX. Fixe of which were not marked complete until this past Tuesday. This, is a bad thing. Some carryover? Sure. A big horking chunk of your stories? Bad. Still earning. Yeah yeah. In the meantime, I’m losing my goddamn mind.

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