Comments on: Caption Contest: The Teflon-gineer (The Seven Types of Software Engineers) http://crankypm.com/2008/10/caption-contest-the-teflon-gineer-the-seven-types-of-software-engineers/ Product management, product marketing, and the ugly side of software product development. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:06:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Matthias Zeller http://crankypm.com/2008/10/caption-contest-the-teflon-gineer-the-seven-types-of-software-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-4691 Matthias Zeller Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:47:14 +0000 http://crankypm.com/?p=532#comment-4691 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">The Teflon-gineer: "There is no documented requirement saying it has produce correct answers" http://tinyurl.com/9oa7lp</span></span> The Teflon-gineer: “There is no documented requirement saying it has produce correct answers” http://tinyurl.com/9oa7lp

]]> By: Caption Contest Winners: 7 Types of Software Engineers | The Cranky Product Manager http://crankypm.com/2008/10/caption-contest-the-teflon-gineer-the-seven-types-of-software-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-1826 Caption Contest Winners: 7 Types of Software Engineers | The Cranky Product Manager Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:34:10 +0000 http://crankypm.com/?p=532#comment-1826 [...] the Teflon-gineer, the Cranky Product Manager’s most despised engineer, reader Eric wins once [...] [...] the Teflon-gineer, the Cranky Product Manager’s most despised engineer, reader Eric wins once [...]

]]> By: Paco http://crankypm.com/2008/10/caption-contest-the-teflon-gineer-the-seven-types-of-software-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-1560 Paco Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:44:25 +0000 http://crankypm.com/?p=532#comment-1560 "You call this a spec? It's just a piece of paper with words on it - I need you to re-enact exactly what the customers want. And use convincing costumes - you know I don't have the capacity for abstract learning and reasoning, so stop rubbing it in my face!" “You call this a spec? It’s just a piece of paper with words on it – I need you to re-enact exactly what the customers want. And use convincing costumes – you know I don’t have the capacity for abstract learning and reasoning, so stop rubbing it in my face!”

]]> By: Eric http://crankypm.com/2008/10/caption-contest-the-teflon-gineer-the-seven-types-of-software-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-1144 Eric Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:08:00 +0000 http://crankypm.com/?p=532#comment-1144 Who, me? or There is no documented requirement saying it had to produce correct answers! Who, me?

or

There is no documented requirement saying it had to produce correct answers!

]]> By: The Other Eric http://crankypm.com/2008/10/caption-contest-the-teflon-gineer-the-seven-types-of-software-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-1126 The Other Eric Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:15:40 +0000 http://crankypm.com/?p=532#comment-1126 Do you have multiple use cases to support your request? Do you have multiple use cases to support your request?

]]> By: The Other Eric http://crankypm.com/2008/10/caption-contest-the-teflon-gineer-the-seven-types-of-software-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-1122 The Other Eric Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:02:36 +0000 http://crankypm.com/?p=532#comment-1122 "You want the 'Ok' button to be spelled 'OK'? It's not in the MRD, the PRD, and I don't see it anywhere in ClearQuest. It's too late for any of the 2009 deliveries without introducing a dangerous risk to the program. If you want to get a VP to accept your change request, we will perform an analysis on the amount of engineering effort to make this change. If we can spare the cycles to make the change and test that nothing breaks and the docs team in Hyderabad can make the doc changes, we'll see about getting it changed for October 2009." “You want the ‘Ok’ button to be spelled ‘OK’? It’s not in the MRD, the PRD, and I don’t see it anywhere in ClearQuest. It’s too late for any of the 2009 deliveries without introducing a dangerous risk to the program. If you want to get a VP to accept your change request, we will perform an analysis on the amount of engineering effort to make this change. If we can spare the cycles to make the change and test that nothing breaks and the docs team in Hyderabad can make the doc changes, we’ll see about getting it changed for October 2009.”

]]> By: DGentry http://crankypm.com/2008/10/caption-contest-the-teflon-gineer-the-seven-types-of-software-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-1115 DGentry Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:51:37 +0000 http://crankypm.com/?p=532#comment-1115 Nobody will code review my deliverables? Obviously, they must know they don't have the requisite domain knowledge and deep understanding of the SDK and programming language. Nobody will code review my deliverables? Obviously, they must know they don’t have the requisite domain knowledge and deep understanding of the SDK and programming language.

]]> By: NWGuy http://crankypm.com/2008/10/caption-contest-the-teflon-gineer-the-seven-types-of-software-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-1110 NWGuy Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:56:15 +0000 http://crankypm.com/?p=532#comment-1110 From the comments here I think your requirements are vague; are you looking for a caption or another characteristic. Assuming it's a caption... My spec doc only goes to pg15; didn't know it ran out of paper! You mean we're not using Spec v0.5 from 8 months ago?? From the comments here I think your requirements are vague; are you looking for a caption or another characteristic. Assuming it’s a caption…

My spec doc only goes to pg15; didn’t know it ran out of paper!

You mean we’re not using Spec v0.5 from 8 months ago??

]]> By: roadmapwarrior http://crankypm.com/2008/10/caption-contest-the-teflon-gineer-the-seven-types-of-software-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-1101 roadmapwarrior Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:46:57 +0000 http://crankypm.com/?p=532#comment-1101 Dev: I didn't know it was supposed to do that. PM: It's in the requirements. Dev: Where? I didn't see it. PM: On the last page of the document. Dev: Oh, I never read the last pages of documents. Why would you put something important there? PM: ?!? (true story) Dev: I didn’t know it was supposed to do that.
PM: It’s in the requirements.
Dev: Where? I didn’t see it.
PM: On the last page of the document.
Dev: Oh, I never read the last pages of documents. Why would you put something important there?
PM: ?!?

(true story)

]]> By: Greg http://crankypm.com/2008/10/caption-contest-the-teflon-gineer-the-seven-types-of-software-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-1095 Greg Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:40:02 +0000 http://crankypm.com/?p=532#comment-1095 Before we implements this, can you interview every one of our customers and put together a report explaining why this feature is needed? Before we implements this, can you interview every one of our customers and put together a report explaining why this feature is needed?

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