Re: OT: Paging the code-monkeys and managers thereof.

In article <Ptyui.18755$6z6.12674@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Krusty <dontwantany@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Bear wrote:

In article <Tbqui.22582$vi3.950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Krusty says...
> Bear wrote:
>
> > All that matters these days, in large-scale environments, is
> > "does it work?", not "is it elegant/better than last week's
> > solution/etc" ... the world view you're espousing is that of a
> > concerned peer, not a business or programme manager.
>
> It's the view of the development manager, i.e. me, & of our ops
> director. I suspect it's also the view of any company who have had
> to re-write code to cope with demand due to their customers
> increasing in size, due to the original developers/management only
> worrying about whether it works or not.





The Abbey project in particular was huge (complete new front &
back-office systems), but I only got involved a few months down the
line, to sort out the overnight synchronisation between the two
systems. At that point they were starting it at 6pm, & praying it would
finish before people started work the next day. It took less than a day
to identify the problem, followed by two more days to fix & test it,
reducing the run time from over 13 hours to a few minutes.



Working on a space program (many years ago) where the original software was written by an American company in a modular form to be integrated "later", another Brit and I were called in to do the integration. The system monitored thousands of parameters between 'nominal' limits, 'safety max's' and 'emergency exceeded' limits. The lot had to cycle with a 'watch dog' set to 15 seconds max or an emergency flagged.

We got it to work for a first time, when my colleague patched the watch dog out to 17 minutes and we started from there!
--
Mick Whittingham
'and I will make it a felony to drink small beer.'
William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2.
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