26 February 2015

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yesterday we were literally wrapping up the project plan, putting the final touches on the design, fixing to enter the design build stage - that part where they take what we said we wanted and program it up. so that's where we were, dotting i's and whatnot, when a teammate asked: "when will we get to [enter project-shifting base-level criteria here]?"

i was dumbfounded. not that we'd overlooked something, which we'd not, but rather, that something i'd been communicating since day one as NOT NOT NOT part of the scope was, at the very last day, asked about.

my top ten reactions:


10. " ."

9. yo no hablo inglés.

8. well, would you look at the time. gotta go. bye.

7. for a second there, i thought you mentioned the possible last-minute addition of a clearly out-of-scope feature. sorry for thinking you'd be that stupid.

6. seriously? seriously??

5. it's the very. last. day. we're not going to "get to" anything else.

4. if it's important, you should have mentioned it even once in the eight months we've been planning.

3. aaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. this is not in scope. i said NOT NOT NOT.

1. we got to that last week. where were you?

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