Well I wouldn't want to disappoint

[suityou01]

Week 4 of contact. Everything going absolutely brilliantly. Until yesterday. Until now I have been churning out good quality specifications and bringing things back on track. I am, their words, "A hero". The previous business analyst is serving notice as she got tulipcanned. Her idea of an F-Spec is shocking. Pages and pages of utter tulipe. 250 pages of utter tulipe to be fair, and this is only for one of 6 processes!

I am to inherit this tulipe. I reviewed the document and could not make head nor tail. I sat with her to try and understand her bizarre diagramming format. Armed with this knowledge I reviewed the document again. Utter tulipe. I told them if they wanted a thorough review it would take 3 days, then goodness knows how long to put it right. In fact it would just be quicker to write the bloody thing from scratch.

Funny how when it's good news your a hero. When it's bad news no one listens. Or at least they try and reassure me it's not that bad. She leaves at the end of next week and I am supposed to have all this under control. How they let the BA get away with this for this long it beyone me. The damage is done, and the noose is ready. Not fair really. And before anyone gets smart, I have it on good authority the project I left is in much better shape now my replacement finally managed to get the off shore team kicked into touch and is building to my spec unhindered.

[sasguru]

Oh FFS! When will you realise you're a complete numpty who should be serving burgers in McD?

[suityou01]

Oh FFS! When will you realise you're a complete numpty who should be serving burgers in McD?

Yep, stuff that happened before I joined is all my fault. Nice one SAS. Makes complete sense. Tard.

[BrilloPad]

The damage is done, and the noose is ready. Not fair really.

I am speechless. Life has always always been fair to me. Is it not for you?

I mean, of all the talk boards I could have ended up on, I landed at CUK where everyone is so mature and supportive.

[Spacecadet]

She leaves at the end of next week

At which point you say you need to do a document review to bring everything into line and then rewrite what she has done (assuming you've been through it with her to help make sense)
2 weeks after she's gone and anything thats wrong with her work will start to surface naturally. You can then produce your new documents and have a good laugh with the PM behind her back.

Kicking someone on their way out isn't a smart way to work

[eek]

So to summarise.

You've done ok on the noddy projects and they've got no one who has noticed the glaring security holes your prototypes have introduced. Hence they are giving you more work.

someone else has created some crap documentation for projects you are inheriting. That's par for the course, mate, so tough.

Oh and the person who replaced you earnt the respect of the developers doing the work and are paying attention to him rather than laughing.

Have I missed anything.

At which point you say you need to do a document review to bring everything into line and then rewrite what she has done (assuming you've been through it with her to help make sense)
2 weeks after she's gone and anything thats wrong with her work will start to surface naturally. You can then produce your new documents and have a good laugh with the PM behind her back.

Kicking someone on their way out isn't a smart way to work

+ WSCS

[suityou01]

So to summarise.

You've done ok on the noddy projects and they've got no one who has noticed the glaring security holes your prototypes have introduced. Hence they are giving you more work.

someone else has created some crap documentation for projects you are inheriting. That's par for the course, mate, so tough.

Oh and the person who replaced you earnt the respect of the developers doing the work and are paying attention to him rather than laughing.

Have I missed anything.



+ WSCS

No, that's not it at all. In fact I'd say you twisted everything there for your own perverse satisfaction.

[Arturo Bassick]

No, that's not it at all. In fact I'd say you twisted everything there for your own perverse satisfaction.

It's the CUK way :-)

[Pondlife]

Who had 3-4 weeks in the sweepstake?

[suityou01]

At which point you say you need to do a document review to bring everything into line and then rewrite what she has done (assuming you've been through it with her to help make sense)
2 weeks after she's gone and anything thats wrong with her work will start to surface naturally. You can then produce your new documents and have a good laugh with the PM behind her back.

Kicking someone on their way out isn't a smart way to work

Not sure how you can be honest about the quality of a very very poor document without someone accusing you of that really.

Perhaps I should just smile, tell everyone everythings fine and let them find out later. No point screaming iceberg anyway.