Developers started work about a month ago without a proper spec - the idea of "agile" was floated as an excuse for this lack of preparation.
Today, the message finally got through to project management that the various pieces of the project do not align. There are fundamental misconceptions between the various sides that we are integrating on how they identify things, and at what level. What the person who failed to write the spec had assumed was going to be a simple first implementation has turned out to be a complete mess. Crawling through it all now on various calls, accross multiple language barriers to try and make sense of things that really needed to be made sense of about 2 months ago.
If it had somehow gelled together without much thought I could actually see us making the delivery deadline. No chance now!
Today, the message finally got through to project management that the various pieces of the project do not align. There are fundamental misconceptions between the various sides that we are integrating on how they identify things, and at what level. What the person who failed to write the spec had assumed was going to be a simple first implementation has turned out to be a complete mess. Crawling through it all now on various calls, accross multiple language barriers to try and make sense of things that really needed to be made sense of about 2 months ago.
If it had somehow gelled together without much thought I could actually see us making the delivery deadline. No chance now!
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