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[nycphp-talk] How much is a site redesign worth?

Kristina Anderson ka at kacomputerconsulting.com
Sun Apr 3 10:27:01 EDT 2011


We'd have to ask David to clarify, but from what he's posted, his 
responsibilities seem to extend beyond just finding the issues, yes...David?



On 4/3/2011 10:01 AM, Donald J. Organ IV wrote:
> So what your saying is after your QS person finds issues, they go into 
> the code/design and fix it themselves??
>
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> *From: *"Kristina Anderson" <ka at kacomputerconsulting.com>
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> *Subject: *Re: [nycphp-talk] How much is a site redesign worth?
>
> The decision on what to build comes down from on high where some 
> confab of management pinheads make decisions based on "wow this will 
> make us rich if we hire some cheap labor to build it for us" and "my 
> Uncle Frank told me PHP was the way to go while we were golfing last 
> week".
>
> The tech lead then assembles a team of inexperienced, cheap 
> programmers (because management has decided the budget, too) who crank 
> out a horrifying batch of really awful code that kind of looks like it 
> might do what management requested be built, with the tech lead taking 
> all the credit for anything good that might happen along the way, and 
> blaming the programmers he personally likes the least for whatever bad 
> things inevitably occur.
>
> This poo poo stew then gets dumped into the lap of our hapless "QA 
> Analyst" who is expected to work a miracle on par with parting the Red 
> Sea by turning it into Tasty Texas Chili for distribution to the masses.
>
> Kristina
>
>
>
>
> \\On 4/3/2011 2:01 AM, Frank Cefalu wrote:
>
>     Not saying your tasks are easier or less stressful.
>
>     But, I guess you can look at senior devs/leads as the architect of
>     the house, and your the house inspector.
>
>     Get what I mean? Not saying one out weighs the other, just one is
>     more involved in architecture, and the other is involved in making
>     sure it meets city requirements aka business reqs.
>
>
>     ----
>     *Frank Cefalu*
>
>
>
>     On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:21 PM, David Krings <ramons at gmx.net
>     <mailto:ramons at gmx.net>> wrote:
>
>         On 4/2/2011 8:22 PM, Frank Cefalu wrote:
>
>             You are wrong. The work of a qa analyst is alot simpler.
>             You don't need to do
>             any architecture based on traffic retention, judge
>             framework usage etc.
>
>
>         Not in my QA world....
>
>
>         David
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