Like the Battle of Britain – Only Worse
Never have so many suffered so much based on a single product selected by so few
My respects to Mr. Churchill, but had he been a developer today, he might say the same thing about a product I'm working with. It's become meeting madness, where it's common to have one, two or even three meetings a day on this single product that was supposed to simplify things here. Instead, it's making things far more complex than ever before.
Let's not even get into the fact that users are saying we're not supporting it to the same level of service that they have come to expect with other applications we've delivered. Ignore that people in the trenches have been saying that there needs to be significant staffing increases in order to get this product rolled-out and supported properly. Forget this stuff.
Just focus on the humanity.
It's horrific. People are beaten down. They are lifeless. They have given up hope. There's no motivation coming from the top... no sense that this is the good fight... it's just like trench warfare. Never ending. Depressing.
Someday this might work. I don't know anymore. Right now, I just want it to end.