The Quiet Revolution

My American director (my manager's manager) is here today as part of his Satellite-Office-World-Tour. He heads off to India tomorrow. Yesterday, I wrote a post on our favourite engineering blog (EngineerBlogs.org), complaining again about the zero-bug prototype policy at FluxCorp. It's titled Prototype vs. Simulation. During today's morning group discussion with the director, he reiterated the wish of FluxCorp to have perfect prototypes but at the same time acknowledged we are both short on time and staff. Kind of like me telling you to hit a hole-in-one every time, but acknowledging that you have no arms.

Acknowledgment is a good first step. But what is he going to do about it? So far, he tells me that the zero-bug policy has gotten widespread revolt from the engineers across the entire business division. But the policy remains in place. Somehow, it sounds like that other guy in Egypt that vowed to stay in place despite widespread disapproval from the masses. I think the policy is going to be meet the same fate -- hanging on officially for now, but will no doubt soon be toppled.

I may be premature, but I'm going to be half-glass-full today. Hurray for common sense!!