Ramble: Degrees of PITA

Are you … a designer working with a programmer?

I am. And I do. And her name is Jay.

Jay is a magic maker. I know that. When I come up with suggested code tweaking, she makes it so. Even when she’s just spent two days bed-bound.

Problem is, I don’t know enough about programming to give her appropriate approbation (it all seems amazing to me).

Backing up … I’m a project manager. It’s what I do.

(Well, Jay might call it something different)

Being a project manager, I’m constantly thinking of ways to improve our working process.

So, today I created a ‘Degrees of PITA’ for Jay to choose from. You know, for when she sends finished bits back over and all?

Simple to fix so a medium wai over bent head will do
Took a bit of thinking and research so a high wai with bent waist is in order
Pain in the butt so forget the dmn wai’s, I want straight out groveling!
Grrrr! I’m going to wring your neck if you ask for this one again!!
&%@!!! I WANT CHOCOLATE NOW NOW NOW!!!!

On the last snafu she fixed – the one that gave me this idea, you know, where she’s supposed to be recovering but instead she’s fixing my bits? – she replied “I’ll take a number two with chocolate thank you very much!”

Luckily, she’s still working her way through the box I sent last week ;-D

Note: A Thai ‘wai’ is pronounced ‘why’, not ‘waa’.

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Stephen Tiano says:

February 10, 2008 at 5:56 pm

After my site and blog were put up, and unless I have <a href=”http://tianodesign.com/blog/?p=101″? technical difficulties, not so much. I guess that’s just how it goes for working primarily in print. But like most things we don’t appreciate till the need arises, I am filled with thanks and appreciation for those who do specialize in programming know-how.

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February 11, 2008 at 2:57 am

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Brian Yerkes says:

February 11, 2008 at 9:02 am

Hi Cat,

Just found your blog. Found this post particularly funny…as I just resigned from my full time position with a company as project manager! I should have employed some of your techniques on my programmers and things may have gone more smoothly!!

will enjoy reading your posts in the future!

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Cat says:

February 11, 2008 at 10:53 am

Stephen – I too am grateful for those who take the time to save my snafus in web. Although I’m interested, my brain just doesn’t go there as it’s full of other things. Jay has a programmers brain and easily sees into a problem, whereas I’m still fighting with it hours later. Makes more sense for her to tweak in seconds and for me to get on and do what I do best.

This week, at my very best I’ve been driving her to distraction.

Brain – Welcome to DWB! Glad you found your way here.

I’ll bet you have interesting stories to tell about programmers. And they you :-)

Jay keeps a list of eye-rollers on me. And I her.

Problem is, her list for me is terribly long. While mine for her can be counted up on one hand.

Ah, the snafus I present for her to fix … the ‘let’s do this’ lists I daily share … and how patient she is (mostly) through it all.

And how GLAD I am that she loves chocolate.

February 11, 2008 at 10:54 pm

Haha…my programmers accept beer as partial payment sometimes.

I love the “let’s do this” lists! I am even lucky enough to have a programmer that comes up with those lists himself! It’s great to answer receive an IM from my programmer that starts with “hey, i had the idea, don’t you think it would be cool if it did this…..”.

By the way, you spelled it “Brain”! There is some weird thing with about 60% of people that email,IM chat, or blog back to me that they type “Brain” rather than “Brian”. Must be a weird way the “brain” processes the visual of the word “Brian”…. :)

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February 13, 2008 at 10:15 pm

Brian,

I am SO sorry about spelling your name wrong!

Jay also comes up with lists, but she keeps them secret.

She just does them, and I find out later when she comes out to Bangkok to go over our bits.

And in those cases, SHE brings the chocolates :-)