The Work Week in Review
Oct. 4th, 2002 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidschrothEarly in the week my boss informed me that our mutual boss had decided that the code I was working on needed to go into the very next release. Since the date for integrating features into this release was past (long past), this would be a bit of a challenge. The stuff I've been working has not had a design review, let alone a code review. We would be taking drastic shortcuts with our process (actually, as near as I can tell, we would not be doing a number of required process steps. For some steps, this is no big loss. For others...)
So I've spent the week get the design documents ready for design review, and the code ready for code review, and copies of the code into the hands of the testers so that they can test the code before it gets jammed into the Operating System and officially released for test.
The shortcuts we're taking are normally a recipe for disaster. I hope we can avoid that.
In other news, one of our customers is planning to upgrade their software to the latest released level. Usually, this customer has me on site whenever they do a major hardware upgrade. I think it's because I act as a sort of good luck charm for them. When I'm on site, potential disasters seem to turn into minor annoyances. Anyway, the rumor is that they'd like to have me on site when they do the upgrade at the end of the month. Which probably will have some impact on other plans I'd had (like World Fantasy Convention).
So I've spent the week get the design documents ready for design review, and the code ready for code review, and copies of the code into the hands of the testers so that they can test the code before it gets jammed into the Operating System and officially released for test.
The shortcuts we're taking are normally a recipe for disaster. I hope we can avoid that.
In other news, one of our customers is planning to upgrade their software to the latest released level. Usually, this customer has me on site whenever they do a major hardware upgrade. I think it's because I act as a sort of good luck charm for them. When I'm on site, potential disasters seem to turn into minor annoyances. Anyway, the rumor is that they'd like to have me on site when they do the upgrade at the end of the month. Which probably will have some impact on other plans I'd had (like World Fantasy Convention).
