Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:30 pm
Obadiah, get them fired and take their monies. 
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Yes! I agree with Daedalus too.Obadiah wrote:starting off in another job like this one....when i started the company was supposed to be hosting in home and the boss thought that we were but we werent(my supervisor lied about it) i couldent use any of the languages i knew only the basics(html,css,javascript) because i didnt have access to the server to set anything up and my supervisor didnt know how to even set up a web server, so 9 months later here i am...doing it all wearing the hat of my supers and my own....work sucksmatt1019 wrote:what do you fear the most?
Have a proper meeting and draw up a project specification. Enforce strict rules about the content, detail and structure of your project specification so that you always have the full details. If the requester can't tell you everything you need to know put it on hold until they can.Me. OK. Why didn't you say that in the first place?
Business: We assumed you'd know. You're the expert.
Organise the staff better. Sounds like you are sorely lacking time management infrastructure you should be able to get information like that really quickly...Another day passes while I chase the availability of programmers
Yep he's right but a lot of this could be prevented. Your IT department's management and interactions with the rest of the business seem to be very poorly organised and unstructured.Business: The IT department really is useless. 3 days to create a simple document!
You'll always get that. In fact you can filter out a lot of the stupid requests that won't get used by quoting these initial high prices and long time scales a lot sooner than you currently are.Business: 2 weeks?!? €3000 ?!?
Client testing is ludicous, firstly they aren't very good at it and secondly going back and forth fixing the bugs they do find takes loads of time anyway. Besides testing is IT's responsibility! You could always use Test-Driven Development there are many many advantages to that.Business: We haven't got time to test it. You should be doing it.