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Can't you just set up a mail box that can be texted with "notes" from wherever and whoever?
Archive the notes as they "expire".
Start somewhere. Send a memo.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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A lot of people are suggesting to let things fall through the cracks, but if I was your manager and I found out about you handling it this way - I'd be more than happy to follow HR's 'correct channel' and follow that particular process instead. I'd be pissed.
The question you should be asking yourself is - what makes an email or a hallway chat easier than the 'correct method'. What is the correct method for your team/org?
Shouldn't the tools you use for bug reporting, requirements gathering, feature requests and ideas also be accessible AND relatively straight forward to use?
Feedback in the real world comes from a multitude of sources - and that definitely includes verbal and email requests.
That should be ok.
You 100% might have tools and a process to follow - tools that enable you to understand a users / product owners issue, feature request or bug. Tools that help you track releases, codebase changes and bugs. Realistically - part of your job should be to interpret those initial requests and format those in a way such that they can be broken apart into smaller achievable tasks, bug reports (whatever) - things that make sense to you, your development team and to the user.
If a user wants to get on board, and submit those requests using your tools (and manages to do it correctly) - happy days. If not, facilitate making it easier for them, or do it yourself.
That's not a senior managers job - that's your job.
modified 19-Jun-18 19:16pm.
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I assumed you are getting paid for the time you took to copy the request from other places to a proper place, right? If the answer is yes, then take a keep breath and just do it. If not, ask him to pay someone to do it. At the end you are really trading your time for the accumulation of dollars. What you actually do in between, could be anything.
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Since the latest update of Win10, Google seems unable to open a webpage. It just keeps continually looping.
Anyone else had this?
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Nope.
Desktop: 1803 (OS Build 17134.112) Opens OK in Chrome Version 67.0.3396.87 (Official Build) (64-bit)
WookieTab: 1803 (OS Build 17134.112) Opens OK in Chrome Version 67.0.3396.87 (Official Build) (64-bit) What versions are you running, and which browser?
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I am running the latest version of Windows which was updated a week or so ago. I have uninstalled Google Chrome, downloaded the latest version and reinstalled it and it still won't open a web page.
Everything works OK with MS Edge.
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As far as I know, mione are the latest versions as well - the WookieTab updated a day or so ago.
What does Winver / Chrome "Help...About" say you are running?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Google is 67.0.3396.87
Windows is Version 1709 Build 16299.492
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So your Chrome is up to date, but the Win 10 version is the Fall Creators update from 2017, not the version that was pushed in April this year?
If this is a new problem, I'd suspect something else on your system, and probably start with a malware scan myself.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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disable all extensions and make sure you have the latest version running (help --> about) if Chrome needs to update, you will see it start here automatically. I sometimes cannot use chrome until it has finished updating.
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Don't ask me what I have done, but Google is now working, thank goodness.
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Yes, all the Q&A inquirers, apparently.
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Yeah, I've told Google my mother is dead, but it keeps acting like I need one.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Cool! An interesting factoid from the caption:
Quote: is not a coincidence that a full moon rises just when the Sun sets because the Sun is always on the opposite side of the sky from a full moon
I learnt something new today!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Next lesson coming up: Why can't you see the terminator and why it's not dangerous at all and has no Austrian accent.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Beautiful!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I want that lens! I'm guessing that lens is quite expensive. Gotta kidney or a lobe of your liver you can spare?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Looks Agile to me: [^].
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I think it is better not to be too agile to do this
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I did that extreme programming thing once. Paired up with my boss, and after every minor milestone was achieved, he'd ask, "Are you ready to compile it yet?"
After telling him no about a dozen times over the course of about three hours and 600 lines of code, I finally compiled it, and not only did it compile clean (with not even a single warning), but it ran correctly.
He shook his head, said, "Simply f*ckin amazing", and walked out of my office. Later that day, he told me he felt like he was only slowing me down by being there.
"Extreme programing" proponents can suck my redneck azz.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 17-Jun-18 12:00pm.
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and did he take any (or all) credit?
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Great story, John, and, for some reason, makes me think of the movie "Casablanca," when Bogart says to Ingrid: "We'll always have Paris." [^].
Sometimes I think our moments of personal excellence, transcendence, selflessness in loving kindness, are the only things that persist when our wetware shells are dis-animated ... but, other times, I just don't think.
cheers, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: He shook his head, said, "Simply f*ckin amazing", and walked out of my office. Later that day, he told me he felt like he was only slowing me down by being there. The biggest advantage is that the weaker one in the team has an easier time learning. If he is not learning, he is not just slowing you down, but also wasting his own time - otherwise the slowdown might have been justifyable by having a second dev that knows the details of the application.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Later that day, he told me he felt like he was only slowing me down by being there
At least he was one of the few people smart enough to recognize that.
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