re: Outbound filtering - part 7

Norman Diamond — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:46:10 GMT

"a short-term fix is what we need"

Now *there's* Microspeak. Later you come closer to talking about fixes, but this short-term thing isn't going to be a fix, this short-term thing is going to *need* fixing. If the short-term thing is a net win then it's still right to do the short-term thing until you can fix it.

"(instead of a future release which is what I originally thought we were going to do)"

You originally thought you were going to take enough time to do it right? That does seem like the right thing to do, doesn't it?

"I then have to explain how we are going to absorb it into the schedule without slipping the overall release and justify why we are doing it now instead of later."

You get to justify why you get to do it the way you don't think you should do it and you get to justify why you don't get to do it the way you think you should do it? Wow, I wish that were Microspeak too, but unfortunately lots of other companies operate the same way. Sigh.

"I am starting to catch some heat for this,"

No ship-it. You're a spam fighter. OF COURSE you catch lots of heat.