{"id":1763,"date":"2009-06-23T14:10:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2012-04-29T08:30:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T07:30:24","slug":"working-with-people-ha-ha-ha-apols-to-roddy-doyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"Working with people, ha ha ha (apols to Roddy Doyle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>this is a purely hypothetical situation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be funny if after <em>weeks<\/em> of System Testing and then <em>weeks<\/em> of User Acceptance Testing during which hundreds of scripts were walked through and many different scenarios were enacted and all of this was\u00a0followed by a few days\u00a0of\u00a0fine-tuning and <em>that<\/em> was followed by a full technical and board review and the board\u00a0gave unqualified permission for the development to progress and then, ten minutes after system implementation (i.e. ten scant minutes after the\u00a0new development was migrated to live), the senior\u00a0user wanted to put a stop on\u00a0the project because a business critical unit couldn&#8217;t make the new system print anything?<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be funny if, after <em>hours<\/em> of investigation, the fault was traced back to the location of that business critical unit, where a member of the night-shift had unplugged the printer and rolled it in to a spare meeting room so she could get some\u00a0peace and quiet?<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this is a purely hypothetical situation Wouldn&#8217;t it be funny if after weeks of System Testing and then weeks of User Acceptance Testing during which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}