Attention seeking post

[suityou01]

blame someone else...


oh you have already!


Tone

See Thomas, this is proper trolling.

Nice work mate

[Zippy]

Just tell it how it is.

[MaryPoppins]

I'm sure there's a clever way of handling this so that I get something out of it.

My approach would be to ensure I drop the offender in it but without looking like I'm trying too hard to do so.

Sneaky and calculating like, while maintaining a dignified frontage. That will be on my gravestone.

[suityou01]

My approach would be to ensure I drop the offender in it but without looking like I'm trying too hard to do so.

Sneaky and calculating like, while maintaining a dignified frontage. That will be on my gravestone.

Yeah I thought that. Just stick to the facts, remain calm, don't aportion blame. Feign surprise and with a slighly disappointed tone.

[MaryPoppins]

Yeah I thought that. Just stick to the facts, remain calm, don't aportion blame. Feign surprise and with a slighly disappointed tone.

Make sure you have the casual conversation with the (senior) person who is sure to idly gossip with others as to what's happened. Get this idiot's mistake known about on a wide scale, along with your apparent disinterest, without having to do the dirty work yourself.

Act like, yeah it's OK, I'm so laid back and uber professional I don't mind the constant and soul destroying incompetance that plagues my working life from you tosspots.

[suityou01]

Make sure you have the casual conversation with the (senior) person who is sure to idly gossip with others as to what's happened. Get this idiot's mistake known about on a wide scale, along with your apparent disinterest, without having to do the dirty work yourself.

Act like, yeah it's OK, I'm so laid back and uber professional I don't mind the constant and soul destroying incompetance that plagues my working life from you tosspots.

New sig potential there.

[Freamon]

You could always do the honourable thing.

Which is what? Send them an unnecessarily large image file?

[MarillionFan]

Which is what? Send them an unnecessarily large image file?

Upgrade to broadband Grandad.

[Freamon]

Options please? Gun-toting killing spree is already on the list

It's a failure of communication. Whoever added the requirement should have passed on the change so that the func spec, tech spec etc could have been updated. Proper requirements management tools and processes will take care of this.

1. Calmly and discreetly show them the audit trail that demonstrates the requirement was added after the func spec was agreed. Don't gloat about it or get upset, or seek to harm whoever did it. This shows them you're not to blame.

2. Offer to implement the requirement, if at all possible, even if it means the module is added after go-live. This shows willing and a team working mentality. If this means they have to extend you, they only have themselves to blame.

3. Point out that the requirements management process is broken. Two parts to this:
a) There may have been other requirements added which haven't made it into the code. This needs checking.
b) A proper process needs to be put in place for the next project. Suggest they extend your contract a few weeks so you can get this in place.

[EternalOptimist]

I find the whole situation ubelievable. you mean you actually had a spec and doc control ????


luxury.

here, I get bargepoled and I dont even know if its my fault , the best instruction I ever had were so long ago they were on the back of a penny black