Recently, I had a conversation with a junior developer on my team. Let’s call him Alan. We were talking about a new notification feature that was going to be used to send reminder e-mails to potentially thousands of people if they had forgotten to enter certain data in the last month or so. Alan was confident that the code he’d written was correct. “I’ve tested it well.”, he said…
No one cares if you leave a ticket open due to a bug or incomplete feature
Product sure as hell cares if you’re going to ship a bug or incomplete feature.
Never worked at company that wasn’t the case in over 15 years.
Product owns the work they ask us to do. We do their bidding.
And we certainly aren’t allowed to just change the scope of tickets at our own discretion without checking in