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This hit all my buttons!
I don't care how much time the client thinks it will take as long as I get the time I actually need to do the job. They can make up a quote by stripping mine back as much as they like; the only way they impose actual cuts is by telling me which requirements they don't want any more!
Passing bullshit requirements and not explaining anything is just completely failing at the job - BA's are literally supposed to translate "I need dis" into something a dev can use! -
@Zer07777 They sound like salespeople who should just stick to the sales department.
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@Zer07777, this is their entire fucking job - being paid to push other people to deliver the undeliverable. While you guys keep on delivering, they will keep on pushing.
We should all take a page from the marketing textbook and stop being so Damm effective. Maybe if we were as incompetent as BAs, they would stop cursing us with BAs. -
Some BAs are genuinely good. I’ve worked with a couple.
The rest think their job is to write down what the business say verbatim and then give it to the devs.
Any questions from the devs and they write those down verbatim and take them back to the business, and on it goes..
Had one who genuinely didn’t know how to use a computer (I’m not exaggerating). She used to be a software tester for a few years but they got tired of her so moved her into business analysis.
Last I heard she’s a project manager now.
Fuck my company. Let the technology people work with technology.
I work at a small company who constantly brings in people who are absolutely useless. The project manager requires me to take items out of azure Dev-ops into an excel because he will not take the time to understand how a board works. The business analyst hands bullshit requirements in formats which no one but him can understand under the pretense that the Devs and architect can ask him when they feel like it. The CEO wants a power-point which again the technical teams have to prepare for him because the project manager or BA will not have time for it. However they make sure to gut the estimates handed over by the Dev team and introduce unfeasible deadlines.
Meanwhile the client has zero problems as the work still somehow gets done due to people in the Dev team overextending. Goddam leeches wasting mine and my teams time doing bullshit.
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