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@Ison Well - in one way it feels great in terms of job security. (But on the other hand a little bit nervous about a scenario where the organisation would need to cut costs fasts - if they have no idea where the costs are they make make irrational decisions and cut the wrong stuff)
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@jiraTicket
I don't know all the details here but did this stupid project/idea come from someone with actual decision power?
If the numbers really are that bad - is someone with exec authority actually aware of this attitude/this shit investment? -
@Ison We've got a marketing team and a dev team. The marketing team mostly does stuff that doesn't require any internal dev effort (like advertising on other sites) but once in a while they do internal campaigns that involve us in the dev team.
there was a vague order from a person in power to make this campaign but the implementation was gradually thought up ad-hoc by marketing team members before it became a ticket in the dev team backlog.
Something that makes it hard to track the cost of these things though is we might re use this approach for more campaigns in the future...so who knows if it'll pay off in a few years.
I like being an employee in product development team (rather than a consultant in a project) - we're exempt from reporting hours per project and making sure to stay within budget.
But on the downside it's frustrating to se how the org happily spends development time without considering we cost money. Just found out that one department ordered a campaign site that took 4 days for 2 devs to build.
It's now ended and revenue was only a few hundred bucks.
When I asked "Didn't we lose money on this project? Considering our salaries and the ~60hour dev time"
- "Oh no, we don't count the dev team as a cost! You already work here and would get paid no matter what" 😑
Good thing I'm not in finance.
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