Our new developer started on Monday and holy smokes has the workload increased for both me (UX, requirements) and our CTO. Our new guy is shaping up to be really good and really quick so I’ve been hustling most of the week to keep ahead of him in UI and requirements cards.
CTO has extra workload too thanks to the odd change of API depending on the requirements and he’s the one reviewing the code.
Most of this week has been shaking out the bugs in our work processes and systems. And by that I mean, investing hours into trying to figure out Jira’s crazy ass approach to permissions. In the 30 to 40 hours I’ve worked this week -about 30% of that has been just unscrewing Jira.
For instance, I wanted to setup Jira so that if I created a story card or improvement card then it would automatically create about five subtasks. I figured a little config work now would save me a bunch of time in the future.
That is until it took three hours to update the schemes, workflows and conditions … I still haven’t figure out how to remove the damn branch button from a subtask.
All in all, things feel like we’re getting some momentum. Sure, there’s extra work but that’s the entire point.