When Project Managers Silence Quality Assurance
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A two-panel meme using the 'Who Shot Hannibal?' format from The Eric Andre Show. In the first panel, a man labeled 'Developers' is slumped over on a couch, having been metaphorically shot. A speech bubble above him reads, 'We should really test this code more'. Standing over him with a smoking gun is another man labeled 'Project manager'. The second panel shows the 'Project manager' looking towards the audience with a nonchalant expression, asking, 'Release it now and we'll update later'. This meme humorously illustrates the common conflict between developers who advocate for thorough testing and project managers who prioritize meeting deadlines above all else. It speaks to the pressure in many software development environments to ship features quickly, often at the expense of code quality, leading to technical debt and the 'we'll fix it in post' mentality that frustrates engineering teams
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Some project managers treat the 'testing' phase as a mere suggestion in the Jira ticket, while developers see it as the only thing preventing a sev-1 incident from becoming their entire weekend plan
“Shipping untested code is just management’s way of crowdsourcing chaos engineering - prod gets the chaos, on-call gets the engineering.”
The PM just discovered the secret to infinite job security: every "quick fix" spawns three critical bugs that become next quarter's roadmap
'We'll update later' is the most reliable promise in software: there will definitely be an update, at 2am, labeled hotfix-final-v3-REALLY-FINAL
The PM's favorite deployment strategy: 'We'll just ship it to production and use our users as QA - they're great at finding edge cases we never thought of, usually at 3 AM on a Friday.'
PM optimization at scale: hit the ship date by refinancing QA into the error budget and using prod as the integration test
PMs redefining 'continuous integration' as 'gunpoint deployment'
Nothing says enterprise agility like skipping the quality gate, shipping to prod, and scheduling the postmortem in the same calendar invite