Today I moved cubicle.\u00a0 I moved back upstairs to the department I belongs to.\u00a0 I ended my life living as an exile on loan to another department.\u00a0 The physical environment is better.\u00a0 The new cubicle is closer to the window, quieter and has more sunlight.\u00a0 It is much better comparing to the old cubicle locating in the entrance of the aisle, which is noisy and dark.\u00a0 The psychological environment is also better.\u00a0 My department is much more organize and well managed than the on loan department.<\/p>\n
It was like constantly fighting fire downstairs due to lack of planning.\u00a0 The project is a disaster.\u00a0 We are still finding bugs on the last day before tape out and push out the schedule.\u00a0 It is very likely the manager will just say that’s enough and tape out the device once the last known bug fixed.\u00a0 It is almost guarantee there will be more bugs hiding in the device if the device is in a constinous state of flux.\u00a0 The device should reach a stable stage with no new bugs for a couple of weeks before tape out.\u00a0 Not enough time to do testing earlier is not an excuse.\u00a0 If the device is not properly tested, it is not ready to tape out.\u00a0 They should either move out the tape out or put more resource in the planning phase.\u00a0 Saying we will finish the tasks with best effort is just an excuse being too lazy to make a proper plan.<\/p>\n
Once you heard the word “best effort”, you can pretty much write off quality in the work.\u00a0 You can qualify the features, the scope, the priority, the schedule, but you can’t qualify what exactly is “best effort”.\u00a0 At the end of day in the eye of the managers, the only measurement of “best effort” is long working hours.\u00a0 It is a known fact that long working hours is not correlated to the quality of the finish product.\u00a0 It is just a waste of time.\u00a0 If time is tight, estimate how much work can be done, prioritize the work and do it right.\u00a0 Sometimes we have to admit, we just don’t have enough time.\u00a0 If we really can’t\u00a0 move the schedule and we have to work over time, we should incorporate the over time into the schedule.\u00a0 Be honest and say the project requires 60 hours a week to finish on time.\u00a0 Don’t underestimate the work and try to sneak overtime into the schedule as a unpleasant surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I moved cubicle.\u00a0 I moved back upstairs to the department I belongs to.\u00a0 I ended my life living as an exile on loan to another department.\u00a0 The physical environment is better.\u00a0 The new cubicle is closer to the window, quieter and has more sunlight.\u00a0 It is much better comparing to the old cubicle locating … Continue reading End of exile<\/span>