Bob is struggling everywhere now

[aussielong]

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.

[Mich the Tester]

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.

It is conforming specification, all test cases are being passed. Please to be making change request.

[Notascooby]

It is conforming specification, all test cases are being passed. Please to be making change request.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Mich the Tester again.

[d000hg]

Can Bobs enroll on your "guaranteed to be in the top 20%" course Aussie?

[aussielong]

Can Bobs enroll on your "guaranteed to be in the top 20%" course Aussie?

Are you a Bob?

[NotAllThere]

Can Bobs enroll on your "guaranteed to be in the top 20%" course Aussie?

It only has to be the much cheapness plenty quickness "guaranteed to be in the top 90%" course, and you'd still get a massive improvement...

[mudskipper]

It is conforming specification, all test cases are being passed. Please to be making change request.

Since a long time I am not observing this behaviour. It is working fine.

[SueEllen]

I thought this was an interesting article (Ok the table in the article.)

Having worked with nearly all of the nations in the moderate list I rate all of them apart from Italy as above India.

In terms of India it may be due to the culture of a majority of the men pretending they don't hear women and not being able to tell you if there is a problem.

Oh and the Italians I've worked with must have done their interviews in Italian.

[darmstadt]

Just maybe, previously everything was wrong, everyone was faking it, bad project management and now the Bobs are actually doing a thorough job and finding all the flaws that were being glossed over

[mos]

I thought this was an interesting article (Ok the table in the article.)

Having worked with nearly all of the nations in the moderate list I rate all of them apart from Italy as above India.

In terms of India it may be due to the culture of a majority of the men pretending they don't hear women and not being able to tell you if there is a problem.

Oh and the Italians I've worked with must have done their interviews in Italian.

This post seems a bit off topic ... however I just have to say its an amazing table. I had no idea that some Eastern European Countries fare so much better than India!