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- toxicgonzo, on 10/11/2007, -5/+61It's too bad the Duke Nukem Forever dev team didn't read this
- sikosmurf, on 10/11/2007, -3/+58I think the primary way to know is if you're looking at a list to figure out if your project is doomed.
- dvsbastard, on 10/11/2007, -1/+27102. You send this to the rest of your team, and have the time to sit down, discuss, and nervously laugh at the list.
- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -5/+20Outsourcing your project to people who write code as obscure as their dialect.
- cougar618, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16its too bad that all the comments on this page will be dugg down.
- GMorgan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14"You still believe compiling is a form of testing"
What nonsense is this. Everyone knows that if it compiles it's good, if it loads it's perfect. - OBKenobi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14The Force is strong in you.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12It is called Forever for a reason.
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10I'm not so upset about my recent layoff after seeing that the company matched about 75 of those. If only I had taken initiative to get out of there on my own.
One of the last emails I saw (from a guy who DIDN'T end up getting the axe): "This requirement fails because we didn't code it. Can we remove it from the requirements doc?" - wiifm69, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10#29. Developers still use Notepad as an IDE, you mean there is something better?
- MikeSD34, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7That's how you know your project is almost done. The feature set is locked and now you're just knocking out bugs. That's usually what the release candidates are.
- GreyICE, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Or when you know that a few unethical coders are about to get very, very, very good performance reviews.
I fixed 17 bugs just now (that I added myself)! - SteveCUBE, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7"36. Your spouse only gets to see you on a webcam"
haha - XTrek, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6It's scary how true this all it...
- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3/* // I reckon so like sweet Alabamian squirrel pie and hoecake. */
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6couldn't finish the list as i'm heading to work, but #13 is wrong (i'm certain there are more):
#13 Progress is now measured by the number of fixed bugs and not completed features
fixed bugs are great, read joelonsoftware's guide to software management. - Johncampbell, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3As a web designer, I really appreciate number ten: "The lead web developer thinks the X in XHTML means ‘extreme’"
- Phegan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Ah yes, the cheap, yet over used Vista joke. Good work my friend.
- Jeezoflip, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4You know your project is doomed when your a microsoft employee
- jaredpariah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The lead web developer thinks the X in XHTML means ‘extreme’
Brilliant! - specialK16, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"You do not understand the acronyms DRY, YAGNI, or KISS; but you do understand WTF, PHB, and FUBAR"
lqtm... - digjam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Your junits have not a single assert.... dugg for this... rofl
#102 You are reading this at work.. :) - cherouvim, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"I don't add asserts, cause the tests will tend to fail"
- Suplyndmnd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1One would think, but not always. Try working on a project because "Goddamn it, we've sunk enough money in it. I wanna see something!"
- Suplyndmnd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"The phrase ‘It works on my machine’ is heard more than once a day"
I hate everyone of these lists except this one. Mostly because more than a dozen has been done, heard, muttered or come to fruition in my life. The one above became an ongoing inside joke for a year.
"You give misinformation to your teammates so you look better on your personal review" *tries to look innocent*
and my personal favorite because it was half true:
"Your car is towed from the office parking lot as it was thought to be abandoned" - Cops came from someone's call that it was left there for a week. It was infact as i'd been sleeping in my office for that entire week then walking across the street to the gym to shower then back across to work. - karthickdoss, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1 1. Management has renamed its Waterfall process to Agile Waterfall
2. You start hiring consultants so they can take the blame
3. The Continuous Integration server has returned the error message “***** it, I give up”
4. You have implemented your own Ruby framework that uses XML configuration files
5. Your eldest team member references Martin Fowler as a ’snot-nosed punk’
6. Your source code control system is a series of folders on a shared drive
7. Allocated QA time is for Q and A why your crap is broken
8. All of your requirements are written on a used cocktail napkin
9. You start considering a new job so you don’t have to maintain the application you are building
10. The lead web developer thinks the X in XHTML means ‘extreme’
11. Ever iteration meeting starts with “Do you want the good news or the bad news…”
12. Your team still gives a crap about its CMM Level
13. Progress is now measured by the number of fixed bugs and not completed features
14. Continuous Integration is getting new employees to read the employee handbook
15. You are friends with the janitor
16. The SCRUM master doesn’t really care what you did yesterday or what you will do today
17. Every milestone ends in a dead sprint
18. Your best developer only has his A+ Certification
19. You do not understand the acronyms DRY, YAGNI, or KISS; but you do understand WTF, PHB, and FUBAR
20. Your manager could be replaced by an email redirection batch file
21. The only certification your software process has is ISO 9001/2000
22. Your manager thinks ‘Metrics’ is a type of protein drink
23. Every bug is prioritized as Critical
24. Every feature is prioritized as Trivial
25. Project estimates magically match the budget
26. Developers use the excuse of ’self documenting code’ for no comments
27. Your favorite software pattern is God Object
28. You still believe compiling is a form of testing
29. Developers still use Notepad as an IDE
30. Your manager wastes 7 hours a week asking for progress reports (true story)
31. You do not have your own machine and you are not doing pair programming
32. Team Rule - No meetings until 10 AM since we were all here until 2 AM
33. Your team believes ORM is a ‘fad’
34. Your team believes the transition from VB6 to VB.NET will be ’seamless’
35. Your manager thinks MS Project is the best management tool the market offers
36. Your spouse only gets to see you on a webcam
37. None of your unit tests have asserts in them
38. FrontPage is your web page editor of choice
39. You get into flame wars if { should be on new line, but you are impartial to patterns such as MVC
40. The company motto is ‘Do more with less’
41. The phrase ‘It works on my machine’ is heard more than once a day
42. The last conference your .NET team attended was Apple WWDC 2000
43. Your manager insists that you track all activity but never uses the information to make decisions
44. All debugging occurs on the live server
45. Your manager does not know how to check email
46. Your manager thinks being SOX compliant means not working on baseball nights
47. The company hires Senetor Ted Stevens to give your project kick-off inspiration speech
48. The last book you read - Visual InterDev 6 Bible
49. The overall budget is mistaken for your weekly Mountain Dew bill
50. Your manager spends his lunch hour crying in his car (another true story)
51. Your lead web developer defines AJAX as a cleaning product
52. Your boss expects you to spend the next 2 days creating a purchase request for a $50 component
53. The sales team decreased your estimates because they believe you can work faster
54. Requirement - Rank #1 on Google
55. Everyday you work until Midnight, everyday your boss leaves at 4:30
56. Your manager loves to say “Why do the developers care? They get paid by the hour.”
57. The night shift at Starbucks knows you by name
58. Management can not understand why anyone needs more than a single monitor
59. Your development team only uses source control as a power failure backup system
60. Developers are not responsible for any testing
61. The team does not use SVN because they believe the merge algorithms are black voodoo magic
62. Your white boards are mostly white (VersionOne)
63. The client continually mistakes your burn-down chart for a burn-up chart
64. The project code name is renamed to ‘The Death March’
65. Now it physically pains you to say the word - Yes
66. Your teammates don’t refactor, they refuctor
67. To reward you for all of your overtime your boss purchases a new coffee maker
68. Your project budget is entered in the company ledger as ‘Corporate Overhead’
69. You secretly outsource pieces of the project so you can blog at work
70. A Change Control Board is created and your product isn’t even its first alpha version
71. Daily you consider breaking your fingers for the short term disability check
72. The deadline has been renamed a ‘milestone’…just like the last ‘milestone’
73. Your project managers ‘open door’ policy only applies between 5:01 PM - 7:59 AM
74. Your boss argues “Why buy it when we can built it!”
75. You bring beer to the office during your 2nd shift
76. The project manager is spotted consulting a Ouija board
77. You give misinformation to your teammates so you look better on your personal review
78. All code reviews are scheduled a week before product launch
79. Budget for testing exists as “if we have time”
80. The client will only talk about the requirements after they receive a fixed estimation
81. The boss does not find the humor in Dilbert
82. You start noticing your boss’s poker tells during planning poker
83. You start wondering if working 2 shifts at Pizza Hut is a better career alternative
84. All performance issues are resolved by getting larger machines
85. The project has been demoted to being released as a permanent ‘Beta’ version
86. Your car is towed from the office parking lot as it was thought to be abandoned
87. The project manager likes to doodle during requirements gathering meetings
88. Your SCRUM team consists of 1
89. Your timesheet looks like a Powerball ticket
90. The web developer thinks being 508 means looking good in her Levi Red Tabs
91. You think you need Multiple Personality Disorder medication because you are Mort, Elvis, and Einstein
92. Your manager substitutes professional consultant advice for a Magic 8 Ball
93. You know exactly how many compile warnings cause an ‘Out of Memory’ exception in your IDE
94. I have used IDE twice in this list and you still don’t know what it stands for
95. You have cut and pasted code from The Daily WTF
96. Broken unit tests are deleted because they are obviously out of date
97. You are sent to a conference to learn, but you skip sessions to go hunting for swag
98. QA has nicknamed you Chief Off-By-One
99. You are using MOSS 2007
100. You have been 90% complete 90% of the time
101. “Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I’m also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too… thanks” - Yarnage, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Unfortunately the company I am working for is working on a $3 million dollar projects... that hits at least 10 of these points.
- Suplyndmnd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I got one that isn't on there but should be #103. If another team starts working on "Version 2" while you're still working on Version 1. (Happened)
- MavRevMatt, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The single way to tell your project is *****: No one uses it/it doesn't work/it's useless.
That would be the end of it eh'? - chrismgtis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11. The name of your project contains the word "Forever".
- MajorHertz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"94. I have used IDE twice in this list and you still don’t know what it stands for"
Along with the rest of the development team... - sevenoutdb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1AWESOME! I love the warning signs that make fun of Agile/Scrum!
- Subterfug, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3TPS Reports anyone?
- 4ndr3wk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1but they have ballllllllllss of steel
- specialK16, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Yes yes! Because only north americans are able to code efficiently now!!!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0dug for lqtm
- DrMonkeyLove, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Is it bad I'm considering printing this out, nailing it to the outside of my cube, and highlighting the 20 or so applicable ones? Maybe that should be sign 102...
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -5/+5#1. "Duke Nukem" is in the title.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Well if they're coding for a North American company, it would be nice to have North Americans writing the code. Too bad we can't live on 8 dollars an hour like our Indian brethren. My company just outsourced a project I wanted, and given the nature of the content, it really should have been worked by a native English speaker.
- swankboy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3If you work in an asp.net shop you need only one - you're project is doomed already.
- markeeto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0"54. Requirement - Rank #1 on Google"
Everyone's free to dream.. LOL! - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0its spelled X-Treme or eXtreme, poser
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http://astore.amazon.com/aerobed.inflatable.bed-20 - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Do you develop for the U.S. Congress?
- andygomez, on 02/22/2008, -0/+095. You have cut and pasted code from The Daily WTF, lol, this is funny stuff
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0so... same thing if you're writing code on a Microsoft visual platform? :(
- Mookey359, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0"10. The lead web developer thinks the X in XHTML means ‘extreme’"
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http://astore.amazon.com/steam.cleaner.mop-20 - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0not sure why you multi-line commented your single line comment there, but yeah dugg cause I'm from the south and we do love our squirrel pie!
- vvelox, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Eep. I am seeing a lot on here that remind me of a ISP I use to work for in SE KS.
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