548 upvotes, 8 direct replies (showing 8)
View submission: Massive Failure on the Product
This screams a project management issue: A team of 4 working 12/16 hours and expecting 20k users on launch. I can sense it has been worked on in a rush, minimum budget, minimum supervision, lack of planning.
Tbh the product manager is the one take the most responsibility here.
Comment by Yan_LB at 27/01/2025 at 00:07 UTC
54 upvotes, 1 direct replies
There's a lot of problems indeed
Comment by rainier024 at 27/01/2025 at 03:38 UTC
21 upvotes, 0 direct replies
yeeeep, this sounds like a classic case of poor planning. Overworking a small team and hoping for a miracle launch rarely ends well. The product manager definitely dropped the ball here
Comment by Headpuncher at 27/01/2025 at 08:18 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yep, the issue started long before the first line of code. It began when someone promised delivery with an unrealistic time scale for a price that was too low to employ enough people to develop the product.
This is why 16 hour days happened. 16 hours is 2 x 8, aka 2 full time jobs. Not one.
Comment by samurai-coder at 27/01/2025 at 01:35 UTC*
16 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Exactly - quality and testing aside, it would be most project managers first thought to release it out to a small percentage of real users to get feedback
Otherwise it's just a feature factory doomed to fail
Comment by maximumdownvote at 27/01/2025 at 00:13 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yeah... You guys aren't going to pay us anymore? Oh no, well, you weren't paying is for the job you wanted anyways so no harm no foul.
Comment by T20sGrunt at 27/01/2025 at 09:00 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Sounds like crazy expectations were promised to the client. If you have a team of devs working at 150-200% capacity, then the sales team and ownership made a sale with unreal expectations and failed in contracting more workers and a proper QA process.
Comment by saito200 at 28/01/2025 at 04:56 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
to me it sounds like old fashioned management style that thinks they will spend huge budget and months of dev time to launch an amazing product that will "rock the market"
stupid
it's like those idiots that went around asking for investment and agencies because they will "build the next facebook"
Comment by Nk-O at 28/01/2025 at 06:46 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Project or product managemene? You used both.