For a very large software and hardware company's local office in NZ in 2001 What they asked for: …
For a very large software and hardware company's local office in NZ in 2001 What they asked for: Refreshing their suit of unit tests, 10,000 of them, that had gone stale (that applied to their widely used C++ telephony library) Budget NZ$1,000,000 (Don't ask what, why, really?) I joined half way through Half the budget spent, nothing to show, mission mysteriously changed to producing a deep packet inspection tool. (What happened to the unit tests you ask? Be quiet! Take the money) My job was to reach deep into their system and bring the data to the surface, roughly speaking Thing is nobody that worked on the library wanted, needed, or asked for any aspect of what were doing The design for it was written on a whiteboard by the project lead before I joined Then the whiteboard was cleaned. …
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