A Familiar Frustration
It’s 4 p.m. on a Friday, and I’ve spent the day working on a new high-priority feature. We discussed the requirements over email, chat, video calls, and several standups, and each time I walked away reasonably confident that I understood the ask.
Now I’m deep into the implementation when the realization hits:
Wait. I didn’t consider that.
Maybe I made an assumption that was never actually supported. Maybe I just remembered something that was said last week. Maybe two requirements contradict each other. Whatever the cause, the result is the same: the solution no longer holds, a large portion of the code needs to be rewritten, and I’m already thinking about how I’m going to explain the delay.
