10-17-2013, 09:16 PM
I've been working with a company for about 17 months. I was brought in to fix their design problems. They are a software-as-a-service company and have millions of users. It was a big undertaking. They had pretty bad designs. I think they thought, perhaps, that the task was a technical one, when it’s really more of a personnel one.
The root issue is organizational. It really has very little to do with what gets done in Photoshop or written in code. Most of the issue is well before that. So I took up that battle. It hasn’t progressed. There has been a lot of talk, a lot of agreement, but no change.
I tried every other option, but change is just not occurring. There's some great people here - some really great devs. They have become more and more apathetic. Even a newer dev was disheartened by the processes.
If change did occur, there would be a big upside.
We’re on what’s proving to be a very difficult project. Not because the project is difficult, but because there’s “too many cooks” and most of them don’t know a sauce pan from a frying pan. And now it’s getting even worse.
As most of you have probably noticed, I rarely quit at anything. So I’m having a hard time determining if it’s time to search for another job or not. I hate to give up just because things are hard, but I’ve been here for almost a year and half, and things have pretty much only gotten worse.
The root issue is organizational. It really has very little to do with what gets done in Photoshop or written in code. Most of the issue is well before that. So I took up that battle. It hasn’t progressed. There has been a lot of talk, a lot of agreement, but no change.
I tried every other option, but change is just not occurring. There's some great people here - some really great devs. They have become more and more apathetic. Even a newer dev was disheartened by the processes.
If change did occur, there would be a big upside.
We’re on what’s proving to be a very difficult project. Not because the project is difficult, but because there’s “too many cooks” and most of them don’t know a sauce pan from a frying pan. And now it’s getting even worse.
As most of you have probably noticed, I rarely quit at anything. So I’m having a hard time determining if it’s time to search for another job or not. I hate to give up just because things are hard, but I’ve been here for almost a year and half, and things have pretty much only gotten worse.