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The Programmers’ Revolt

A green sea turtle swims past a school of Raccoon Butterflyfish near Hawaii.

Every once in a while, something happens in life that makes you say, “enough!”

That happened a couple of weeks ago to me and a couple other programmers working on the same project that I’m working on.

The issue was that we had made some significant changes to a project, we had communicated to the project manager that the changes required that the entire project needed to be retested, but the testing never happened.  So of course we spent the next several days doing the “testing” and fixing.

This scenario should resonate with just about every programmer that reads this blog, but it should raise some questions as well.

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