Developer Manages Bugs?

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:05:03 GMT

The project manager on my current project just said that usually the lead developer is responsible for managing the bug/issue list. Wow! I can't believe he just said that, particularly since he claimed responsibility for this task only two weeks earlier. Just what is the project manager suppose to do if the lead developer manages the project?

I hate Graphic Designers

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:25:30 GMT

The last couple websites that I worked on where we hired a graphic designer, we ended up blowing our deadlines because the graphic designers couldn't do their jobs. I have three problems in particular with their performance on these projects.

Instead of just laying out the site, they would come up with new ideas (features) and try to inject them into the site design. Worse, they don't present them as new features to the team, rather they simply add them to the webpage layouts and hope the developers just code them. The developers often don't know any better and all of a sudden you have a feature that wasn't in the requirements. Development takes longer than it should and you blow your deadline.
Quite often, graphic designers use the opportunity to review the work done by development to make their own original designs better. This creates an endless iterative approach. Once a webpage layout is approved, it should not change, unless their is a valid reason and valid reason isn't that the designer thinks it would be better another way.
While the designer tried to sneak a bunch of new features into the website, they often fail to do their own work. In order to make their own deadlines, they change pages to reduce their workload. Dropping webpages, copy and content. In the first run-thru, we had several placeholders where the design team was suppose to fill in copy later, as they didn't have time to produce the copy in the first run-thru. Later, they resolve most all of the copy placeholders by saying "just drop the placeholder, the webpage is sufficient as-is."

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Developer Manages Bugs?

I hate Graphic Designers