Hug a developer!

Nice. I like the little piece at the end too... :)

Does anybody know the name of that song?

Mark Blomsma: Why do you think so ?

So nice, and so true...
I need a hug too!

While I do have pity for the developers, it's not the fault of the business that their requirements change constantly, it's the fault of project management for not embracing a methodology that can handle constantly changing requirements. Seriously. This is life and lots of smart people have been perfecting the art of dealing with real life business. Search wikipedia for Agile, Scrum, or Dynamic Systems Development Method. Constant change is OK!

Constant change may be ok *if* it also means extending (resetting?) the deadline each time it happens :) (Dream on...)

I'm a developer yet still offended by the message delivery. The creators are intolerable bellyachers -- to try and draw a comparison between begging on the street and working in software is ludicrous.

Stand up to your fucking bosses if they impose scheduling or platform weirdness on you. Jesus.

I'm a developer and I think it's funny. Especially the ending about VB.

I don't know what's funnier, the movie or the fact that someone was offended by it.

Funny!.. and real based on my husband's complaints. My husband is a developer.

I thought that only happened in the middle east..Hugs

OH...this was supposed to be funny or bellyaching? Shoot...I thought it was par for the course. Just yesterday I had a site that is going live on Wednesday suddenly remember a major piece of functionality it needed, putting us in "drop everything and scramble" mode because it has to be in there. Only to have them go "We decided to wait on that until a few weeks after rollout" hours later.

I have yet to work in/for a place where this stuff didn't happen. Keeps it interesting, don't it?! Thanks, Mark, for the humor after all your normally dry, boring stuff ;-) (kidding)

hope there is also an equivalent video for us, testers.

sob....

IMO this video is ridiculous - these are all standard excuses for poor performance of lazy devs:
- requirements changed
- changed the platform
- etc

Smart management does not set deadlines - it let's devs set them. And one last thing - we are not married to our jobs, don't complain - find a new one.

meh

I set this url as a punch line in gtalk. all my developer brothers liked it and I agree with Rousko Atanasov, Kumar McMillan

Good to know there are others out there...WE ARE NOT ALONE!

I thought this was downright hilarious and a direct bull’s-eye!

It never ceases to amaze me how people get offended by the smallest thing. No sense of humor I guess. Then again, the ones bitching and moaning about how THEY would never have their schedules change and it is up to the engineer to stand up to their management obviously don’t work on a project which is important enough for their company to get out as soon as possible. Try working on a serious, complex project sometime. Until then, SIT DOWN, AND SHUT THE HELL UP. (oh, and get a @#$’n sense of humor!).

^ Amen to that, SD!

Those are not standard excuses of lazy developers. If one manages to read and understand the message, one will see that there were no excuses presented. The signs just described what's going on.

على فكره ،، كل اللوحات اللي مكتوبة مكتوبة بخط واحد واللي كاتبها شخص واحد .. كلها اشتغالات !!
For known,, All sings has written in the same font by a same person .. it's just a joke !!

Hi,

This is awesome. Same for me. And I need a hug too..
I get bored with web browsers conflicts and clients and managers who don't know what they need or what they want, weekend phones, urgent tasks, etc..

Save the developers!..

This is so true...

Only developers can relate on this...

The rest are same as clients and managers...
People who doesn't understand the negative effects of
"changes", "modifications" and "revisions"...

If specs are already decided, then carry on...
If there are major revisions later, same goes to the sked...

If there are revisions and the sked doesn't change,
all they need is a Superman!

"Humans are not robots."

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hug you tube:http://blogconceicao.blogspot.com/search?q=hug

This video is really cool. Actually all that is stated on this video is the truth for every developers who didn't manage to set the right management path on the course of the development. But still it's humorous.

This is why I hate corporate world... End!

really really cool :)

sooooo true, im sure all developers face similar scenarios quite regularly!

Loved this video... and it is so much what I lived through for almost 8 years. I can not believe people were offended! Lighten up! If it is not like that at your company - congrats! But there are a lot of places where the programmers are treated that way. And, I did stand up to my boss but he is my boss. He has the final word. Or, did until I decided I'd had enough and left!!!

My first ever programming job. 10 weeks into a 13-week schedule, the project manager took the boss into the back room, threatened him with a gun, took £3000 from the safe and the boss's car-keys then left. The boss promptly rang the police and gave them his home address and the number on his car licence plate. The police found the project manager in time to prevent the guy's suicide.

That boss was a real sweetie, but the client was not. We didn't have any form of project management for the last 3 weeks of that project (for obvious reasons), and yes the client moved the goalposts a few times, and yes we delivered a week late, and no we didn't get a repeat booking from that client.

The clip tells it like it is. Bless you, whoever you are!

You people talk as if it's an easy fix. Standing up to your boss? HA, try that in the real world. The fact is, the majority of management in software are idiots.

This was awsome and sadly, so true!

Good work dude ...
The above video is based on the true stories.
100% Fact but QA guys is missing from it.

it's an F'n joke ppl....get over yourselves...

It's not a f'n joke, its the reality. you get over yourself. you F'n Indian consultant.

Awesome video! This is exactly what its like....at least we all understand each other :0)

Waw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice Video which shows the reality of developpers...........

Very Very nice one

This has got to be the most elegantly expressed vision of a developer’s woes I’ve ever seen. Kudos to devshop.

Right on!!!

You said exactly how I feel.

I am a developer and a manager, and I have seen ignorant business and project managers destroy development teams because of a lack of simple understanding in the challenges that developers face in the workplace. There is no cure for stupid and incompetent management regardless of the methodology being implemented (agile or otherwise). This video whether an advertisement or not conveys well how stupid decisions can destroy a project.

I'm a developer. I need a hug too :)

liked it - cannot believe some were offended

>>Gerald Habal: hope there is also an equivalent video for us, testers.
>>sob....

Furnunculus oh ye of devious deeds!

Looking at the video from the 'wife of the develeper' yea I can see it to a point. Sudden over time, changing deadlines yea it sucks. Now think how much it sucks for those of us that have to explain to the end users over and over every day why their progs/software aren't working cause they decided they wanted it done in half the time with twice the parts! Quit complaining at least you get to work with somewhat technically minded people all day.

If you get take this video as literal gospel truth and get all worked up: you're a fool !!

If you ignore it completely - then you're also a fool !!

So lighten up and take the best of the message it's trying to convey.

will make love to my cute hubby to make him feel better.

I laughed...in irony (because the same things happen here too) ^_^'
the fact that some people call "us" or "them" lazy developers must've never experienced what to be like to step in "developers" shoes, especially those with bad management and put in tight schedule, unclear requirement (oh yeah they only said i want this, can you do this... oh wait the computer can't do this?) and mind sets that changing one functionality in program is like changing words in word, and that's just half of the problem.
if constant change is good (maybe), then can you say most building planner / architects bad because they rarely change their structure design on the fly?
sorry, got carried away because I feel the same like those in the video and it really is painful.

I am a developer. I saw this referenced at http://www.OceanfrontDomains.Com and couldn't stop laughing.

Then, a few days later, I saw it again refeneced at http://www.SubliminalMessages.Com and realized it was a definite sign that I needed to find me a new job.

Thanks for getting me to wake up and smell the um ... java.

Sam I Am