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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It will be like where I was working. On that project there were ~12 people. You could’ve cut in in half easily:

    • AFAIK the project manager did nothing (tbh they had no clue what they were doing)
    • The QA was incompetent and I wrote all their tests
    • 2 User Researchers set up various sessions – but the business told them all their findings were wrong (turns out the researchers were right)
    • Architect went to some meetings and never spoke to the devs about anything (turns out I had to find out how things worked and tell him…)
    • The Lead Developer seemed to be on holiday every other day or in meetings
    • One Dev was fresh out of a scheme (for non comp sci students, so was slow but that’s understandable)

    I ended up working overtime into burn out to get the project through the door (and hit issues due the architect should’ve informed us of). It would’ve honestly been easier as just me, one other developer, and a BA