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Originally Posted by Larry Legend
Victor,
When stuff like that happened at my last company I would come on very early (because that's when my VP of Eng came in) and go into his office and say:
"Hey you have 5 mins. I'm just seeing a concerning thing I think you would care about." Then you let them know that you think the recent changes make sense and you know why they are doing it. But that there are some issues, such as engineers currently sitting on their hands because they are blocked. That it doesnt seem like the situation they want you to be in. You could even provide a solution.
The situation is begging you to take advantage of it.
ya I am staying out of this for the time being and hoping that we kind of just move forward next sprint and forget about all of these arbitrary rules.
but I dont have a confidante, nor do I even know who to approach. also while my reputation is great with other devs, I get the feeling the myriad middle managers dont hold me in that high of regard.
3 devs just took etb for the rest of the sprint now lol.
but now we have other issues. we did some work for another program bc we needed to consume one of their APIs and it needed a slight tweak for our use case. in the process our devs and QA tested at the API level and tested the other 4 consumers. the contract didnt change so it really was low risk.
anyway, they now want us to test some apps that use the consumers of the API. this is ofc overkill but whatever. I let QA fight about it and probably should have stepped in. anyway, we end of having 2 impromptu meetings about it yesterday and our scrum master took the idea to the program higher ups who said absolutely do not do the extra testing.
ofc, the other team flipped out and now we are having an hour long meeting with the SME, manager, and QA from that team, along with myself, 2 QA, our scrum master and our entire programs tech lead.
like, for all this time spent, just do the freakin work. and thats really my fault as I should have organized the extra testing and just gotten it done.
part of the problem is that we dont have immediate access to the other app and know how to test it. and that is on the other team as they should have primed us for that work and at least told us how to start. ofc at the start they didnt say anything about testing that app. I dunno. I just hate meetings. and I dont really like conflict either. so if I can avoid a meeting and make ppl happy then that just seems a lot easier than all this bs.