There are armies of them in this bank.
New Bob BA joins at end of my project. Won't accept he is there to perform a testing role. Keeps trying to change things unnecessarily. I'm having to manage that. It's taking a lot of my time and testing is not getting done.
ICC Bob writing an ETL layer the bank enforces on all distributed systems. I knew he had not grasped the logic he had to do so I spelt it out in a spec. One month before golive Bob declares this functionality cannot be done in his layer, "tools not capable of it". He even brought some random Bobs into the meeting to back him up on his position.
Today, the system I call for certain analytics starts behaving in a nondeterministic way. Its in UAT, been stable for weeks. Today it starts reporting weird errors for inputs it previously liked. I got on the phone...nobody will admit to concurrency issues being exposed by higher volume of course. More Bobs supporting that system. They are getting back to me in the morning apparently.
New Bob BA joins at end of my project. Won't accept he is there to perform a testing role. Keeps trying to change things unnecessarily. I'm having to manage that. It's taking a lot of my time and testing is not getting done.
ICC Bob writing an ETL layer the bank enforces on all distributed systems. I knew he had not grasped the logic he had to do so I spelt it out in a spec. One month before golive Bob declares this functionality cannot be done in his layer, "tools not capable of it". He even brought some random Bobs into the meeting to back him up on his position.
Today, the system I call for certain analytics starts behaving in a nondeterministic way. Its in UAT, been stable for weeks. Today it starts reporting weird errors for inputs it previously liked. I got on the phone...nobody will admit to concurrency issues being exposed by higher volume of course. More Bobs supporting that system. They are getting back to me in the morning apparently.
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