"Are you incompetent, it is just adding a single button!"
Oh no not again. It has been years since I last encountered the "it is just a button!". For f****ks sake, adding a button to a Graphical User Interface is no actual work, but making that button do something is.... uhm, anything from quite easy to impossible. The most annoying thing, is that there is no way of explaining to the person that can be nearly impossible especially when the person refuses to provide a spec for it.
The discussion starts with a "add a button", when the developer asks what the button is supposed to do and the response is "it shouldn't be that difficult". Now the developer thinks "great, for the first time in my career I get a proper spec!" and all he gets is dissappointment. He is provided with basicly what the button is supposed to be labeled and he is left by his manager to figure out what the label means. No spec, no cursory requirements, just a button called something and alot of questions...
And I have run into it too many times to count by now...
The discussion starts with a "add a button", when the developer asks what the button is supposed to do and the response is "it shouldn't be that difficult". Now the developer thinks "great, for the first time in my career I get a proper spec!" and all he gets is dissappointment. He is provided with basicly what the button is supposed to be labeled and he is left by his manager to figure out what the label means. No spec, no cursory requirements, just a button called something and alot of questions...
And I have run into it too many times to count by now...
posted by paracelsus at
11:07 AM
1 Comments:
A button shouldn't be that difficult to create, seriously *rofl*. I'd actually suggest creating it according to the specs that you not got. In the message handler write this:
for(;;)
{
static const char szMessage[] =
"The programmer was not given "
"a spec for this button, so "
"he decided to kindly ask you "
"- the user - to write an "
"email to [email of person] "
"or send him a fax via [fax"
"nr] or call him via [phone "
"nr>. Thank you for your "
"attention.\n"
"The developer of the button.";
static const char szCaption[] =
"The developer encountered a"
" problem";
MessageBoxA(NULL, szMessage, szCaption, MB_OK);
}
... the only problem is to get it through alpha, beta and product testing - in case the person you are talking about knows what that is ;) ... but once you got it through the customers of your product will care for better specs next time ;)
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