Oct. 13th, 2015

luckykaa: (Robot)
So I started. We had this insane mess of Qml and C++. I was stuck in a large office on the opposite sode of the room from the rest of the team. Design, such as it is, consists of a few screens indicating flow, and some data types.

What do we do with the data? That's something that was left until later. As were details about how everything was hooked together. We still don't have any detial of what to do with it. I ask explicit questions. I get vague answers. Nothing is written down. Tasks are assigned and estmated with no idea behind them. They really don't get Scrum methodology here.

One part was completed and working pretty well, except the data lacked the key information. I spent several weeks trying to get this information. he solution - completely change it all. Get a new guy in to do a bunch of work without really understanding it. Scrap everything we already have. Meanwhile I rewrite the UI side of things with no real idea of how this works, so I re-rewrite it. We still don't have all the data. I keep pushing for it. I'm told to hard code it. Which is stupid, bad design and takes more sodding time!

I have no idea why they got a new guy in. He's fine but he's no C++ expert, and adding more resources at this late stage doesn't really help much.

And the lead dveloper keeps changing Class names and stuff. Seriously, let it settle down! There's a whole bunch of files with the name matching "delete-me*.cpp"

And now we've moved to new offices. The expectation was we'd have a single large room. We instead have several small rooms. People keep clustering around the doorway! I do not like crowds!

So I'm a bit irked with this contract.
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