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Raich
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I've been locked in a room with another dev for 2 days working like insane to remake a outdated crm system. Had to inform the department lead that the deadline isn't possible and we need another week. Got questioned about what we had been doing the past days, redesigned the database, migrated data, frontend etc. Boss goes "that's all you manager in 2 days?" We went in with 2 slides and had to design and plan everything from scratch.
I lost count of how many rounds and added complexity happened in 2 days when Customer came by. Now there is going to be a board meeting with PM as he complains that the project is taking too many resources and should be killed. I invited myself to that meeting to defend the work done. Hold my laptop and watch this.

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  • 6
    8y
    Damn... Defend what you did, bro. Those kind of PM are the worst, find a better job or... Why not? start your own software company
  • 3
    8y
    PM should have scheduled it more realistically beforehand with your input. When deadlines are not realistic this will happen every time.
    Congrats for working so hard. They are wrong and you did right. If you decide to ultimately leave get another job before quitting.
  • 2
    8y
    I got another week to get it operational and in testing. bad news is... I have to do it in access as it's "done from earlier", it didn't work before, it sure as hell doesn't now with the new db and I want to redo it in anything else. I'm drooling over open source crm right now. But... it's a corporate bank and they don't allow open source....
  • 1
    8y
    @Raich doesn't allow open source?

    I work at a hospital and we have a lot of very logical issues around hosting and platforms. However, open source is fine as long as we review the code and it is hosted on our servers. For us, if it is something different we can network protect it and then host it on a dedicated server / environment thus isolating it from the rest of the organization. Even with our normal applications, the servers are isolated with single ports allowed to the network (generally only 443).

    So when you say access, do you mean M$ Access? If so wft, that is the most restarted thing I have ever heard. Not open source but a crappy platform that cannot truly be secured?

    Also, good work on the two days, that is a lot.
  • 3
    8y
    @dmartin Anything open source or externally developed will have to go through at least 6 months of application security testing, cost a ton and then probably rejected. Yes, it's MS access and it freaking hurts..... It's for internal use on our secure network still I'm not allowed to use or do anything even if it's not sensitive data on the system. Strict as hell and to name an example... we are stuck on 4-5 year old frameworks cause we can't upgrade without security approval and some legacy systems that noone remembers "might" break if we upgrade.
  • 1
    8y
    Yeah, there's way to much #OhFuckNo going on. Time to start shipping resumes
  • 1
    8y
    too much bullshit, you should just left them there
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