Feedback from client

[Mich the Tester]

I'm starting to wonder whether I'm cut out for this permie thing. I shan't do a Suity just yet though.

[original PM]

don't ask the difficult questions.

put them on the risk log as risks and so when it goes live and falls flat on it's arse you arse is covered...

but yes as a permie you need to stop thinking about doing things and start thinking about how to ensure you do not get the blame when things go wrong!

[d000hg]

You might be right there. The other thing I notice at this client is that many people assume that everybody has the same understanding of some domain specific term, and people don't as questions for fear of being considered stupid. The result of that will be obvious; when you start asking further, it turns out that 4 different people have 4 different opinions on what something means, and the devs don't actually know what any of it means but are too scared to ask, and meanwhile everyone in the room assumes everyone else know what he's on about.

That reminds me very much of something from Feynman;s autobiography.